zhijiang created FLINK-13100:
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Summary: Fix the unexpected IOException during FileBufferReader#nextBuffer
Key: FLINK-13100
URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-13100 Project: Flink
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: Runtime / Network
Reporter: zhijiang
In the implementation of FileBufferReader#nextBuffer, we expect the next memory segment always available based on the assumption that the nextBuffer call could only happen when the previous buffer was recycled before. Otherwise it would throw an IOException in current implementation.
In fact, the above assumption is not making sense based on the credit-based and zero-copy features in network. The detail processes are as follows:
* The netty thread finishes calling the channel.writeAndFlush() in PartitionRequestQueue and adds a listener to handle the ChannelFuture later. Before future done, the corresponding buffer is not recycled because of zero-copy improvement.
* Before the previous future done, the netty thread could trigger next writeAndFlush via processing addCredit message, then FileBufferReader#nextBuffer would throw exception because of previous buffer not recycled.
We thought of several ways for solving this potential bug:
* It does not trigger the next writeAndFlush before the previous future done. To do so it has to maintain the future state and check it in relevant actions. I wonder it might bring performance regression in network throughput and bring extra state management.
* Adjust the implementation of current FileBufferReader. We ever regarded the blocking partition view as always available based on the next buffer read ahead, so it would be always added into available queue in PartitionRequestQueue. Actually this next buffer ahead only simplifies the process of BoundedBlockingSubpartitionReader#notifyDataAvailable. The view availability could be judged based on available buffers in FileBufferReader instead of next buffer ahead. When the buffer is recycled into FileBufferReader after writeAndFlush done, it could call notifyDataAvailable to add this view into available queue in PartitionRequestQueue.
I prefer the second way because it would not bring any bad impacts.
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