If similar float values were encoded, the number of leading bits would
overflow the 5 available bits to store them (e.g. store 33 in 5 bits). When
decoding, the values after the overflowed value would spike to very large and
small values.
To prevent the overflow, we clamp the value to 31 which is the maximum
number of leading zero bits we can encoded.
Fixes#4357
If similar float values were encoded, the number of leading bits would
overflow the 5 available bits to store them (e.g. store 33 in 5 bits). When
decoding, the values after the overflowed value would spike to very large and
small values.
To prevent the overflow, we clamp the value to 31 which is the maximum
number of leading zero bits we can encoded.
Fixes#4357
I believe this change address the issues with hinted-handoff not fully replicating all data to nodes that come back online after an outage.. A detailed explanation follows.
During testing of of hinted-handoff (HH) under various scenarios, HH stats showed that the HH Processor was occasionally encountering errors while unmarshalling hinted data. This error was not handled completely correctly, and in clusters with more than 3 nodes, this could cause the HH service to stall until the node was restarted. This was the high-level reason why HH data was not being replicated.
Furthermore by watching, at the byte-level, the hinted-handoff data it could be seen that HH segment block lengths were getting randomly set to 0, but the block data itself was fine (Block data contains hinted writes). This was the root cause of the unmarshalling errors outlined above. This, in turn, was tracked down to the HH system opening each segment file multiple times concurrently, which was not file-level thread-safe, so these mutiple open calls were corrupting the file.
Finally, the reason a segment file was being opened multiple times in parallel was because WriteShard on the HH Processor was checking for node queues in an unsafe manner. Since WriteShard can be called concurrently this was adding queues for the same node more than once, and each queue-addition results in opening segment files.
This change fixes the locking in WriteShard such the check for an existing HH queue for a given node is performed in a synchronized manner.
Philip O'Toole
Ben Johnson
Jason Wilder
Philip O'Toole
Jason Wilder
Cameron Sparr
dgnorton
Nathaniel Cook
Samer Kanjo
Nick Dawbarn
Nathaniel Cook
Rob Wilson
Michael Desa
Paul Dix