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Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time #7558

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@bleskes bleskes commented Sep 3, 2014

With the change in #7493 , we introduced a pinging round when a master nodes goes down. That pinging round helps validating the current state of the cluster and takes, by default, 3 seconds. It may be that during that window, a new node tries to join the cluster and starts pinging (this is typical when you quickly restart the current master). If this node gets elected as the new master it will force recovery from the gateway (it has no in memory cluster state), which in turn will cause a full cluster shard synchronisation. While this is not a problem on it's own, it's a shame. This commit demotes "new" nodes during master election so the will only be elected if really needed.

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bleskes commented Sep 4, 2014

@kimchy I pushed another update based on our discussion.

@@ -139,6 +140,9 @@

private volatile boolean rejoinOnMasterGone;

// will be set to true upon the first successful cluster join
private final AtomicBoolean hasJoinedClusterOnce = new AtomicBoolean();
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not sure if it will help but maybe make that an integer such that we can log how often it did join it might help when debugging? just an idea

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It might.. won't hurt. I'll add it.

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s1monw commented Sep 5, 2014

I left some comments @bleskes

…to have extra trace info. Change pingRensponse.target to pingResponse.node, for clarity. Added comments and docs
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@clintongormley clintongormley changed the title [Discovery] Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time Resiliency: Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time Sep 8, 2014
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s1monw commented Sep 10, 2014

LGTM

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bleskes commented Sep 11, 2014

Re-opening as there is some BWC work to be done for 1.4

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bleskes added a commit to bleskes/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2014
…same node

elastic#5413 introduced a change where we prefer ping responses containing a master over those who don't. The same change changes the preference of acceptance if both pings have a master indication or if neither do.

 elastic#7558 added new flag to the PingResponse which changes after a node has joined the cluster for the very first time. Giving preference to older pings cause the wrong value of this flag to be used.   This commit restores the preference to the original one.
bleskes added a commit to bleskes/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…e cluster for the first time

With the change in elastic#7493,  we introduced a pinging round when a master nodes goes down. That pinging round helps validating the current state of the cluster and takes, by default, 3 seconds. It may be that during that window, a new node tries to join the cluster and starts pinging (this is typical when you quickly restart the current master).  If this node gets elected as the new master it will force recovery from the gateway (it has no in memory cluster state), which in turn will cause a full cluster shard synchronisation. While this is not a problem on it's own, it's a shame. This commit demotes "new" nodes during master election so the will only be elected if really needed.

Closes elastic#7558
bleskes added a commit to bleskes/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…he new ping on master gone introduced in elastic#7493

The change in elastic#7558 adds a flag to PingResponse. However, when unicast discovery is used,  this extra flag can not be serialized by the very initial pings as they do not know yet what node version they ping (i.e., they have to default to 1.0.0, which excludes changing the serialization format). This commit bypasses this problem by adding a dedicated action which only exist on nodes of version 1.4 or up. Nodes first try to ping this endpoint using 1.4.0 as a serialization version. If that fails they fall back to the pre 1.4.0 action. This is optimal if all nodes are on 1.4.0 or higher, with a small down side if the cluster has mixed versions - but this is a temporary state.

Further two bwc protections are added:
1) Disable the preference to nodes who previously joined the cluster if some of the pings are on version < 1.4.0
2) Disable the rejoin on master gone functionality if some nodes in the cluster or version < 1.4.0
bleskes added a commit to bleskes/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…e cluster for the first time

With the change in elastic#7493,  we introduced a pinging round when a master nodes goes down. That pinging round helps validating the current state of the cluster and takes, by default, 3 seconds. It may be that during that window, a new node tries to join the cluster and starts pinging (this is typical when you quickly restart the current master).  If this node gets elected as the new master it will force recovery from the gateway (it has no in memory cluster state), which in turn will cause a full cluster shard synchronisation. While this is not a problem on it's own, it's a shame. This commit demotes "new" nodes during master election so the will only be elected if really needed.

Closes elastic#7558
bleskes added a commit to bleskes/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…he new ping on master gone introduced in elastic#7493

The change in elastic#7558 adds a flag to PingResponse. However, when unicast discovery is used,  this extra flag can not be serialized by the very initial pings as they do not know yet what node version they ping (i.e., they have to default to 1.0.0, which excludes changing the serialization format). This commit bypasses this problem by adding a dedicated action which only exist on nodes of version 1.4 or up. Nodes first try to ping this endpoint using 1.4.0 as a serialization version. If that fails they fall back to the pre 1.4.0 action. This is optimal if all nodes are on 1.4.0 or higher, with a small down side if the cluster has mixed versions - but this is a temporary state.

Further two bwc protections are added:
1) Disable the preference to nodes who previously joined the cluster if some of the pings are on version < 1.4.0
2) Disable the rejoin on master gone functionality if some nodes in the cluster or version < 1.4.0

Closes elastic#7694
bleskes added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…e cluster for the first time

With the change in #7493,  we introduced a pinging round when a master nodes goes down. That pinging round helps validating the current state of the cluster and takes, by default, 3 seconds. It may be that during that window, a new node tries to join the cluster and starts pinging (this is typical when you quickly restart the current master).  If this node gets elected as the new master it will force recovery from the gateway (it has no in memory cluster state), which in turn will cause a full cluster shard synchronisation. While this is not a problem on it's own, it's a shame. This commit demotes "new" nodes during master election so the will only be elected if really needed.

Closes #7558
bleskes added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2014
…ping on master gone introduced in #7493

The change in #7558 adds a flag to PingResponse. However, when unicast discovery is used,  this extra flag can not be serialized by the very initial pings as they do not know yet what node version they ping (i.e., they have to default to 1.0.0, which excludes changing the serialization format). This commit bypasses this problem by adding a dedicated action which only exist on nodes of version 1.4 or up. Nodes first try to ping this endpoint using 1.4.0 as a serialization version. If that fails they fall back to the pre 1.4.0 action. This is optimal if all nodes are on 1.4.0 or higher, with a small down side if the cluster has mixed versions - but this is a temporary state.

Further two bwc protections are added:
1) Disable the preference to nodes who previously joined the cluster if some of the pings are on version < 1.4.0
2) Disable the rejoin on master gone functionality if some nodes in the cluster or version < 1.4.0

Closes #7694
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bleskes commented Sep 16, 2014

this is now back ported to 1.x & 1.4

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@clintongormley clintongormley changed the title Resiliency: Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time Jun 7, 2015
mute pushed a commit to mute/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jul 29, 2015
…e cluster for the first time

With the change in elastic#7493,  we introduced a pinging round when a master nodes goes down. That pinging round helps validating the current state of the cluster and takes, by default, 3 seconds. It may be that during that window, a new node tries to join the cluster and starts pinging (this is typical when you quickly restart the current master).  If this node gets elected as the new master it will force recovery from the gateway (it has no in memory cluster state), which in turn will cause a full cluster shard synchronisation. While this is not a problem on it's own, it's a shame. This commit demotes "new" nodes during master election so the will only be elected if really needed.

Closes elastic#7558
mute pushed a commit to mute/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Jul 29, 2015
…he new ping on master gone introduced in elastic#7493

The change in elastic#7558 adds a flag to PingResponse. However, when unicast discovery is used,  this extra flag can not be serialized by the very initial pings as they do not know yet what node version they ping (i.e., they have to default to 1.0.0, which excludes changing the serialization format). This commit bypasses this problem by adding a dedicated action which only exist on nodes of version 1.4 or up. Nodes first try to ping this endpoint using 1.4.0 as a serialization version. If that fails they fall back to the pre 1.4.0 action. This is optimal if all nodes are on 1.4.0 or higher, with a small down side if the cluster has mixed versions - but this is a temporary state.

Further two bwc protections are added:
1) Disable the preference to nodes who previously joined the cluster if some of the pings are on version < 1.4.0
2) Disable the rejoin on master gone functionality if some nodes in the cluster or version < 1.4.0

Closes elastic#7694
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