[infinispan-dev] Default TCP configuration is broken.

[Radim Vansa]

On 02/22/2017 03:59 PM, Pedro Ruivo wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> The 'default-jgroups-tcp.xml" has MFC protocol without the FRAG2/3
> protocol. This is broken when we send a multicast message larger than
> 'max-credits'. It will block forever in MFC [1]. No timeouts since we
> don't have the CompletableFuture at this point.
>
> Possible solutions are:
>
> #1 put back FRAG2/3
>
> advantage: we have multicast flow control.
> disadvantage: all messages are fragmented (unicast and multicast), that
> probably requires more resources (more messages in NAKACK and UNICAST
> tables?)
>
> #2 remove MFC
>
> advantage: probably low resources usages. TCP will handle any fragmentation.
> disadvantage: we don't have multicast flow control.
>
> #3 alternative?

Let MFC go one message beyond the limit? I don't know if that's 
desirable, but it's about having less messages on the wire = in some 
buffers. I've seen FRAG2 buffering a many parts of a big 
StateResponseCommand. So it might have similar effect if we allow one 
big message to be sent, rather than splitting it into parts and 
buffering that anyway on the receiver side.

Just my 2c

Radim

>
> Cheers,
> Pedro
>
> [1] actually, I need a thread dump to confirm it.
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Radim Vansa <rvansa at redhat.com>
JBoss Performance Team