Vladimir Ozerov created IGNITE-6171:
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Summary: Native facility to control excessive GC pauses
Key: IGNITE-6171
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-6171
Project: Ignite
Issue Type: Task
Components: general
Reporter: Vladimir Ozerov
Fix For: 2.2
Ignite is Java-based application. If node experiences long GC pauses it may
negatively affect other nodes. We need to find a way to detect long GC pauses
within the process and trigger some actions in response, e.g. node stop.
This is a kind of Inception \[1'\], when you need to understand that you sleep
while sleeping. As all Java threads are blocked on safepoint, we cannot use
Java's thread to detect Java's GC. Native threads should be used instead.
Proposed solution:
1) Thread 1 should periodically call dummy JNI method returning current time,
and set this time to shared variable;
2) Thread 2 should periodically check that variable. If it has not been changed
for some time - most likely we are in GC pause. Once certain threashold is
reached - trigger compensating action, whether this is a warning, process kill,
or what so ever.
Justification: crossing native -> Java boundaries involves safepoints. This way
Thread 1 will be trapped if STW pause is in progress. Java method cannot be
empty, as JVM is smart enough and can deduce it to no-op.
\[1\] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
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