[infinispan-dev] Distributed Executor remote cancellation

Radim Vansa rvansa at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 03:24:46 EDT 2016


Can any of the chained futures be already running when the first is not 
completed? Because when it's not running, there's nothing to interrupt.

Btw., if the interface returns CompletableFuture but you inherit from 
that to override the cancel method, the javadoc will still say that the 
mayInterruptIfRunning does not apply. In that case, you should either 
return InterruptableCompletableFuture with javadoc override, or maybe 
just AnotherFuture implements Future, CompletionStage (names at your 
discretion).

R.

On 03/30/2016 08:13 PM, William Burns wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> So in that case to try to appease both worlds: interrupting tasks and 
> using CompletableFuture, I will just document the 
> DistributedExecutorService to say that the mayInterruptIfRunning  
> argument is only used on the returned future instance from methods 
> such as submit and it is ignored on any chained CompletableFutures.
>
>  - Will
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:37 PM Gustavo Fernandes 
> <gustavo at infinispan.org <mailto:gustavo at infinispan.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Sanne Grinovero
>     <sanne at infinispan.org <mailto:sanne at infinispan.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 30 March 2016 at 17:40, William Burns <mudokonman at gmail.com
>         <mailto:mudokonman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > You can still attempt to cancel a task. This email is
>         specifically about
>         > interruption though.  Let me explain the nuances in a bit
>         more detail.
>         >
>         > With the suggestion we would still fully support if the task
>         hasn't yet
>         > started that it would be cancellable.
>         >
>         > However when you cancel a task, there is an
>         mayInterruptIfRunning boolean.
>         > If mayInterruptIfRunning is true and the task is already
>         running it will try
>         > to interrupt the thread processing it. This is what this
>         email trail is
>         > about.  We all know that java interruption can be flaky to
>         begin with and
>         > then adding a remote aspect to it, it becomes even more
>         unreliable.
>         >
>         > So do you guys think we need to support "interrupting" a
>         task in progress?
>
>         Yes, absolutely! Resources are precious :)
>
>         See also the reasoning of our old friend:
>          - https://corner.squareup.com/2016/01/query-sniper.html
>
>         Take the example of a non-correctly tuned Hibernate Search
>         "rebuild
>         all indexes" task. On a non-trivial data set it might need to
>         run for
>         weeks... you need a way to kill it.
>
>
>
>     That's the case of our Mass Indexer: one of the motivations of
>     making it return a Future was
>     the possibility of cancelling tasks, capability offered by the
>     Distributed Executor.
>
>     Gustavo
>
>
>         Thanks,
>         Sanne
>
>         >
>         >  - Will
>         >
>         > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:29 PM Tristan Tarrant
>         <ttarrant at redhat.com <mailto:ttarrant at redhat.com>>
>         > wrote:
>         >>
>         >> I agree with Sanne, we need cancellable  tasks.
>         >>
>         >> Tristan
>         >>
>         >> On 30/03/2016 18:19, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>         >> > The term "Interruption" might have been too specific, but
>         being able
>         >> > to cancel a task seems essential to me.
>         >> >
>         >> > On 30 March 2016 at 17:04, William Burns
>         <mudokonman at gmail.com <mailto:mudokonman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         >> >> Recently we have been moving a lot of our methods that
>         return Future
>         >> >> [1] to
>         >> >> CompletableFuture [2]. Unfortunately the latter,
>         CompletableFuture,
>         >> >> doesn't
>         >> >> allow for cancellation of the future, since there is no
>         thread tied to
>         >> >> it.
>         >> >> So I am proposing that our DistributedExecutorService
>         [3] no longer
>         >> >> allows
>         >> >> for interruption of remote threads on a cancellation. 
>         This way we can
>         >> >> have
>         >> >> our distributed executor service return
>         CompletableFuture instances
>         >> >> which do
>         >> >> not support interruption.
>         >> >>
>         >> >> Also to note that DistributedExecutorService extends
>         ExecutorService
>         >> >> which
>         >> >> returns a normal Future which is documented as allowing
>         cancellation.
>         >> >> In
>         >> >> this case I would just document on
>         DistributedExecutorService that we
>         >> >> don't
>         >> >> support interruption anyways.
>         >> >>
>         >> >> Does anyone require the use of interruptable tasks with
>         Distributed
>         >> >> Executor?
>         >> >>
>         >> >> Thanks,
>         >> >>
>         >> >>   - Will
>         >> >>
>         >> >> [1]
>         >> >>
>         >> >>
>         https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
>         >> >> [2]
>         >> >>
>         >> >>
>         https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html
>         >> >> [3]
>         >> >>
>         >> >>
>         https://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/8.1/apidocs/org/infinispan/distexec/DistributedExecutorService.html
>         >> >>
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