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  1. Kudu
  2. KUDU-3212

Location assignment improvements

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 1.10.1, 1.12.0, 1.11.1, 1.13.0
    • None
    • client, master, tserver

    Description

      Current implementation of location assignment has some room for improvement. As of now, the following is understood:

      1. Implementation-wise, Kudu masters could use newly introduced Subprocess functionality to run location assignment script. That would be more robust than using current fork/exec approach to run the script, especially for larger deployments where Kudu masters might have high request-per-second ratio (many active threads running, a lot of memory allocated, etc.)
      2. Conceptually, Kudu tablet servers could have all the necessary information regarding their location at startup and that information isn't going to change while tablet server is running. The server/machine they are running at is provisioned to be in some rack, availability zone, data center, etc. and that assignment isn't changing while the server is up and running. So, a Kudu tablet server can be provided with information about its location upon startup; there is no need to consult Kudu master about this.
      3. Conceptually, Kudu clients might be aware of their location as well.

      To address item 1, it's necessary to update current implementation of location assignment, so the script should be run by a dedicated subprocess forked off earlier during master's startup. Ideally, to make it more robust, the subprocess server can run the location assignment script as a small server that takes an IP or DNS name on input and provides location label on the output, maybe line-by-line. The latter assumes chaning the requirement for a location assignment script, and probably we should introduce a separate flag to specify the path to a script that is running in such mode. However, even with current location assignment approach when it's necessary to run a script per every location assignment request, using the Subprocess functionality would benefit larger deployments where fork/exec sequence for a kudu-master process is slow and inefficient.

      To address item 2, it's necessary to introduce a new tablet server's flag that is set to the assigned location for the tablet server. The systemd/init.d startup script for kudu-tserver should populate the flag with proper value. It's also necessary to introduce a new field in the TSHeartbeatRequestPB message to pass the location from tablet server to master. If master sees the field populated, it should not run the location assignment script, even if the location assignment script is set specified (i.e. --location_mapping_cmd flag is set). This way it would be possible to perform rolling upgrades from older versions which use centrally managed location assignment script to the version that implements the new approach.

      To address item 3, it's necessary to find a means to specify location for a Kudu client. Probably, an environment variable can be used for that. The ConnectToMasterRequestPB can be extended to include an optional client_location field. In addition, if --master_client_location_assignment_enabled is set to true, master could run the location assignment script to assign location to a client which doesn't populate the newly introduced ConnectToMasterRequestPB::client_location field.

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            aserbin Alexey Serbin
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