[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JGRP-1875) UNICAST3/UNICAST2: sync receiver table with sender table

[Bela Ban (JIRA)]

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Bela Ban commented on JGRP-1875:
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Perhaps a simpler solution is to use _timestamps_ for {{SEND-GET-FIRST}} and {{STABLE}} messages from B to A. 
Timestamps could be generated using {{System.nanoTime()}}, which would guarantee that they always increase. The sender (A) keeps the last timestamp received from B, and drops all {{STABLE}} messages from B which are <= its current timestamp for B.
This solution would require minimal changes to UNICAST3 and a backport to UNICAST2 would be minimally invasive, too. Also, it would include traffic reduction as detailed in JGRP-1874, by resending {{GET-FIRST-SEQNO}} via a timer task.

> UNICAST3/UNICAST2: sync receiver table with sender table
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JGRP-1875
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1875
>             Project: JGroups
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>            Reporter: Bela Ban
>            Assignee: Bela Ban
>             Fix For: 3.5.1, 3.6
>
>
> If a receiver B closes its recv-table and the sender A doesn't, then (when receiving msgs from the sender) the receiver engages in a protocol using {{GET-FIRST-SEQNO}} to sync itself with the sender. This has several problems, detailed in JGRP-1873 and JGRP-1874. (Note that the other way round (sender closing send-table), there is no issue, as the sender will create a new connection with a new {{conn-id}}).
> To prevent {{STABLE}} messages interfering with {{GET-FIRST-SEQNO}} messages (JGRP-1873), we could run an additional {{SYNC}} protocol round, e.g.
> * B needs to get the lowest and highest seqno sent from A
> * B sends a {{SYNC}} message to A (instead of a {{GET-FIRST-SEQNO}} message)
> * B sets a flag that discards all {{STABLE}} or {{ACK}} messages on reception of {{SYNC}}
> * B replies with a {{SYNC-OK}} containing the _lowest_ and _highest_ sent seqnos
> * B creates an entry for A with the lowest and highest seqnos
> * B sends a {{SYNC-ACK}} to A
> * A resets the flag and starts accepting {{STABLE}} / {{ACK}} messages from B again
> * A and B now use the usual protocols to retransmit missing messages



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