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Arpit Agarwal commented on HADOOP-13263:
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Hi [~sodonnell], I will review the updated patch.
bq. Do we need to raise a documentation jira to mentioned the new parameters to
enable the feature?
We should add the settings to hdfs-default.xml at a minimum. I don't think we
have any site documentation for setting up group mapping.
bq. Some of the original tests had delays in them too, so that is something
that should look over that entire test class I guess.
I agree. Any tests that depend on predictable timing of events are likely to be
flaky. We have many such tests in our code base unfortunately.
> Reload cached groups in background after expiry
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>
> Key: HADOOP-13263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13263
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Stephen O'Donnell
> Assignee: Stephen O'Donnell
> Attachments: HADOOP-13263.001.patch, HADOOP-13263.002.patch,
> HADOOP-13263.003.patch, HADOOP-13263.004.patch, HADOOP-13263.005.patch,
> HADOOP-13263.006.patch
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>
> In HADOOP-11238 the Guava cache was introduced to allow refreshes on the
> Namenode group cache to run in the background, avoiding many slow group
> lookups. Even with this change, I have seen quite a few clusters with issues
> due to slow group lookups. The problem is most prevalent in HA clusters,
> where a slow group lookup on the hdfs user can fail to return for over 45
> seconds causing the Failover Controller to kill it.
> The way the current Guava cache implementation works is approximately:
> 1) On initial load, the first thread to request groups for a given user
> blocks until it returns. Any subsequent threads requesting that user block
> until that first thread populates the cache.
> 2) When the key expires, the first thread to hit the cache after expiry
> blocks. While it is blocked, other threads will return the old value.
> I feel it is this blocking thread that still gives the Namenode issues on
> slow group lookups. If the call from the FC is the one that blocks and
> lookups are slow, if can cause the NN to be killed.
> Guava has the ability to refresh expired keys completely in the background,
> where the first thread that hits an expired key schedules a background cache
> reload, but still returns the old value. Then the cache is eventually
> updated. This patch introduces this background reload feature. There are two
> new parameters:
> 1) hadoop.security.groups.cache.background.reload - default false to keep the
> current behaviour. Set to true to enable a small thread pool and background
> refresh for expired keys
> 2) hadoop.security.groups.cache.background.reload.threads - only relevant if
> the above is set to true. Controls how many threads are in the background
> refresh pool. Default is 1, which is likely to be enough.
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