[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JGRP-948) MERGE: merging digests based on hearsay

MERGE: merging digests based on hearsay --------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-948 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JGRP-948 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Bela Ban Assignee: Bela Ban Fix For: 2.6.10, 2.8 A merge involves consolidating digests from all members. However, we don't get the digests directly from involved members, but also include 'hearsay', e.g. in A: {A} and B: {B,C}, B adds digest information from C. This is what I call 'hearsay', the digest information about C isn't provided by C directly, but by B. If B hasn't been able to communicate with C for a while, e.g. because B's link to C was asymmetrical, then B's information about C's digest might be incorrect. E.g. if B returns #3 as C's highest seqno, but in effect C's highest seqno is #20, then members other than C will not be able to get messages C#3 - C#20 from C. They would therefore queue all subsequent messages from C ! SOLUTION: - On merging, partition coordinators cannot just return their digests, but have to fetch the digests for the partition from all members - The digest consolidation only accepts digests from direct members, e.g. when B returns a digest of (B:24,C:7,D:15) we only use the B part of it - Simplification of the above: have members only return their lowest, highest received and highest delivered seqnos, but *not* seqnos they 'know' (hearsay) from other members - When a merge coordinator gets digest information from {A,B,D} in a merge between {A,B} and {C,D}, then it has to fail the merge because it is missing innformation from C !