Hi guys, As a fyi, I've been looking at a random Infinispan 2LC testsuite failure for a while and based on the logs below, I suspect there might be a bug in PFER. In 03, Thread 5 tries to acquire a lock for PFER and successfully acquires it in 12, 5ms after the acquisition attempt is logged. PFER is 0 lock timeout, so that, in theory, should have failed. I'm looking into this. In case you wanna check the logs as well, http://drop.io/ypmes4v contains the logs. Cheers, ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Galder Zamarreno" <galder(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Brian Stansberry" <brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: Subject: Re: Random ConcurrentWriteTest.testManyUsers() failure Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:28:42 +0100 Hi again, I added more logging. It appears that PutFromLoadValidator is not 100% fail proof. This is what is happening in hibernate.log attached (I'll use the absolute times that are shorter): Note: @ signs are followed by system identity hashcodes to differentiate instances. 01. 20780: Thread 5: PutFromLoadValidator: Checks whether put is valid and it's valid since it's in pending puts 02. 20781: Thread 5: Invokes PFER for Customer.contacts#3 with CollectionCacheEntry[] 03. 20781: Thread 5: Attempting to lock MarshalledValue(instance=org.hibernate.test.cache.infinispan.functional.Customer.contacts#3. 04. 20784: Thread 3: PutFromLoadValidator: Record recent removal 05. 20784: Thread 3: Within GlobalTransaction:<eq-35632>:7276, invoked with command RemoveCommand for Customer.contacts#3 06. 20784: Thread 3: Attempting to lock MarshalledValue(instance=org.hibernate.test.cache.infinispan.functional.Customer.contacts#3. 07. 20784: Thread 3: Successfully acquired lock! 08. 20784: Thread 3: Executes RemoveCommand on Customer.contacts#3 09. 20785: Thread 3: At commit time, Customer.contacts#3 is updated with removed=true valid=false changed=true created=false ... 10. 20785: Thread 3: Attempting to unlock Customer.contacts#3 12. 20786: Thread 5: Successfully acquired lock! 13. 20786: Thread 5: Executes PFER and updates Customer.contacts#3 with MarshalledValue(instance=CollectionCacheEntry[]; cachedHashCode=0; serialized=false)@c63847 14. 20794: Thread 3: Within GlobalTransaction:<eq-35632>:7280, calls get on Customer.contacts#3 15. 20794: Thread 3: Fetches from container and returns MarshalledValue(instance=CollectionCacheEntry[]; cachedHashCode=0; serialized=false)@c63847 So, as you can see, the PFER and remove calls interleaved in such way that putFromLoad() is allowed to get in while there's a collection modification going on. Lock attempts/releases look ok. Now, can we record a forthcoming removal as a result of a collection update earlier than where is happening in the log? Maybe an option would be to instead of recording a removal of the collection cache, record when an entity is updated? We could do a pre-invalidation, similar to what happens with update timestamps after an entity is modified. This would reduce the chances of a situation like the one above happening. WDYT? On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:51:53 +0100, Galder Zamarreno <galder(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hmmmm, looks very similar actually, if not exactly the same scenario. > If I look more closely in the logs, I see: > > ... > 12:22:12,152: Thread 3 insets new Contact#73 but JDBC connection is not > flushed yet!!! > 12:22:12,152: Thread 3 calls put on entity cache for Contact#73 > 12:22:12,164: Thread 3 calls remove on Customer.contacts#3 // so that > removes collection > ... > 12:22:12,189: Thread 5 updates Customer.contacts#3 to > CollectionCacheEntry[] (via a PFER call) > ... > > Now, if read correctly, the validator should be stopping Thread 5 from > loading an empty collection, since the invalidation period is 10 > seconds. > > I'll add more logging around this to see if I can see why the validator > is not working correctly cos I did port the validator and the tests > back in Sept/Oct > > Thanks for the pointer! > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:47:42 +0100, Brian Stansberry > <brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Sorry; still haven't been able to really dig in on this. Have you >> looked at >> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3817 ? >> >> On 02/17/2010 06:45 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote: >>> Hi Brian, >>> >>> So, I've removed the assertions from the 2nd transaction, which is the >>> one that checks that the contact exists after addition, or the contact >>> does not exist after the removal. However, the test does still >>> randomly >>> fail. Let me explain: >>> >>> 12:22:12,098: Thread 3 removed Contact#64 from Customer#3 >>> successfully. >>> Customer#3 has no Contacts >>> 12:22:12,144: Thread 3 starts process to add new Contact to Customer#3 >>> 12:22:12,152: Thread 3 insets new Contact#73 but JDBC connection is >>> not >>> flushed yet!!! >>> 12:22:12,157: Thread 5 starts reading all Customer's 1st contact >>> 12:22:12,160: Thread 5 checks the Customer.contacts#3 collection cache >>> and finds nothing. >>> 12:22:12,160: Thread 5 checks Contacts table in database and finds >>> nothing >>> 12:22:12,165: Thread 3 flushes JDBC connection and Contact#73 is now >>> seen by the rest >>> 12:22:12,189: Thread 5 updates Customer.contacts#3 to >>> CollectionCacheEntry[] (via a PFER call) >>> 12:22:12,196: Thread 3 uses the Session to get Customer#3's contact >>> but >>> gets nothing, since CollectionCacheEntry[] is returned by the >>> collection >>> cache. >>> 12:22:12,262: Thread 3 tries to remove Customer#3's contact, but since >>> there's none, it fails. >>> >>> The culprit would appear to me to be line in 12:22:12,189. If it >>> doesn't >>> find any contacts, it initialises to CollectionCacheEntry[], which is >>> different to not storing anything at all. If nothing had been stored, >>> 12:22:12,196 wouldn't have returned empty but instead would have gone >>> to >>> the database and retrieved it from there. However, we, in the 2LC, we >>> don't control what's stored, this comes from whatever Hibernate passes >>> us, via CollectionLoadContext. Not sure how this can be fixed... >>> Anything that u can think of? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:34:24 +0100, Brian Stansberry >>> <brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> Have fun on holidays! Better ping me about this when you get back. >>>> >>>> On 01/28/2010 10:01 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 01/28/2010 03:46 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote: >>>>>> Quick response; I'll look more later: if that scenario is what is >>>>>> happening, the test isn't correct. There's no reason Thread 2 *in a >>>>>> second tx* should have any expectations. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the quick reply. There's no rush at all on this. Remember >>>>> that I'll be away on PTO next week. Back on the 8th. >>>>> >>>>> FYI, the expectations are checked in the contactExists() method that >>>>> gets called after removing. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 01/28/2010 06:46 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote: >>>>>>> Hi Brian, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've been looking at a random failure of >>>>>>> ConcurrentWriteTest.testManyUsers() in the Infinispan cache >>>>>>> provider and >>>>>>> I wanted to pass my suspicions through you to see what you think. >>>>>>> There's no immediate rush on this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Some notes: >>>>>>> Customer.contacts#2 refers to Customer 2's contacts collection >>>>>>> cache. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sometimes the test can fail because of this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. 12:21:40,434: Thread 1 calls readEveryonesFirstContact >>>>>>> 2. 12:21:40,434: Thread 1 starts tx1 >>>>>>> 3. 12:21:40,454: Thread 1 reads Contact#302 from Customer#2 from >>>>>>> db >>>>>>> 4. 12:21:40,483: Thread 2 calls removeContact for Customer#2 >>>>>>> 5. 12:21:40,483: Thread 2 starts tx2 >>>>>>> 6. 12:21:40,485: Thread 2 deletes Contact#302 from Customer#2 in >>>>>>> db. >>>>>>> 4. 12:21:40,491: Thread 2 acquires lock for updating >>>>>>> Customer.contacts#2 >>>>>>> collection cache. >>>>>>> 5. 12:21:40,492: Thread 2 deletes Contact#302 from >>>>>>> Customer.contacts#2 >>>>>>> collection cache. >>>>>>> 6. 12:21:40,492: Thread 2 releases lock >>>>>>> 7. 12:21:40,492: Thread 2 commits tx2 >>>>>>> 7. 12:21:40,493: Thread 1 acquires lock for updating >>>>>>> Customer.contacts#2 >>>>>>> 8. 12:21:40,493: Thread 1 updates Customer.contacts#2 collection >>>>>>> cache >>>>>>> with Contact#302. >>>>>>> 9. 12:21:40,493: Thread 1 commits tx1. >>>>>>> 10. 12:21:40,499: Thread 2 starts a tx and checks whether any >>>>>>> Contacts >>>>>>> exist for Customer#2. >>>>>>> 10. 12:21:40,542: Thread 2 fails because it expects not to be any >>>>>>> Contacts but finds one in the cache that Thread 1 had put. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It looks to me that this is a failure of the test itself. The fact >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> the remove and check is done in different transactions allows >>>>>>> another >>>>>>> thread to come in the middle and load some data into the cache. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> WDYT? Do you think I'm reading this correctly? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> p.s. I've attached the full log in case you wanna inspect it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >