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Erick Erickson commented on SOLR-14861:
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Yeah, the threads join, but each one calls testHarness.close(). It's not clear
to me whether/how that gets to coreContainer.shutdown() or whether somehow
coreContainer.shutdown() is called by the test ending. But it doesn't matter
because it led me to look at the code, and it's fragile.
What I can guarantee is that the reload does not necessarily complete before
coreContainer.shutdown is called().
Forget the test for a minute and look for the places like this in the code
(from the aforementioned coreContainer.reload). Or where
coreContainer.isShutDown() is called.
{code}
if (isShutDown) {
throw new AlreadyClosedException();
}
continue on with the rest of the method
{code}
Once a thread is past that check, it _assumes_ that coreContainer is OK to use
and will remain so until the method ends. If, for any reason, the thread is
suspended and time is given to another thread that is processing shutdown,
things can go wonky.
Having two variables wouldn't make any difference that I can see, the
assumption that once past any such test test you're safe is inherently
fragile/sensitive to race conditions...
> CoreContainer shutdown needs to be aware of other ongoing operations and wait
> until they're complete
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>
> Key: SOLR-14861
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14861
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Erick Erickson
> Assignee: Erick Erickson
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: SOLR-14861.patch
>
>
> Noble and I are trying to get to the bottom of the TestBulkSchemaConcurrent
> failures and found what looks like a glaring gap in how
> CoreContainer.shutdown operates. I don't know the impact on production since
> we're shutting down anyway, but I think this is responsible for the errors in
> TestBulkSchemaConcurrent and likely behind others, especially any other test
> that fails intermittently that involves core reloads, including and
> especially any tests that exercise managed schema.
> We have clear evidence of this sequence:
> 1> some CoreContainer.reloads come in and get _partway_ through, in
> particular past the test at the top where CoreContainer.reload() throws an
> AlreadyClosed exception if (isShutdown).
> 2> Some CoreContainer.shutdown() threads get some processing time before the
> reloads in <1> are finished.
> 3> the threads in <1> pick back up and go wonky. I suspect that there are a
> number of different things that could be going wrong here depending on how
> far through CoreContainer.shutdown() gets that pop out in different ways.
> Since it's my shift (Noble has to sleep sometime), I put some crude locking
> in just to test the idea; incrementing an AtomicInteger on entry to
> CoreContainer.reload then decrementing it at the end, and spinning in
> CoreContainer.shutdown() until the AtomicInteger was back to zero. With that
> in place, 100 runs and no errors whereas before I could never get even 10
> runs to finish without an error. This is not a proper fix at all, and the way
> it's currently running there are still possible race conditions, just much
> smaller windows. And I suspect it risks spinning forever. But it's enough to
> make me believe I finally understand what's happening.
> I also suspect that reload is more sensitive than most operations on a core
> due to the fact that it runs for a long time, but I assume other operations
> have the same potential. Shouldn't CoreContainer.shutDown() wait until no
> other operations are in flight?
> On a quick scan of CoreContainer, there are actually few places where we even
> check for isShutdown, I suspect the places we do are ad-hoc that we've found
> by trial-and-error when tests fail. We need a design rather than hit-or-miss
> hacking.
> I think that isShutdown should be replaced with something more robust. What
> that is IDK quite yet because I've been hammering at this long enough and I
> need a break.
> This is consistent with another observation about this particular test. If
> there's sleep at the end, it wouldn't fail; all the reloads get a chance to
> finish before anything was shut down.
> An open question how much this matters to production systems. In the testing
> case, bunches of these reloads are issued then we immediately end the test
> and start shutting things down. It needs to be fixed if we're going to cut
> down on test failures though. Besides, it's just wrong ;)
> Assigning to myself to track. I'd be perfectly happy, now that Noble and I
> have done the hard work, for someone to swoop in and take the credit for
> fixing it ;)
> gradlew beast -Ptests.dups=10 --tests TestBulkSchemaConcurrent
> always fails for me on current code without my hack...
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