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[SPARK-19529] TransportClientFactory.createClient() shouldn't call awaitUninterruptibly()

Josh Rosen authored 8 years ago

This patch replaces a single `awaitUninterruptibly()` call with a plain `await()` call in Spark's `network-common` library in order to fix a bug which may cause tasks to be uncancellable.

In Spark's Netty RPC layer, `TransportClientFactory.createClient()` calls `awaitUninterruptibly()` on a Netty future while waiting for a connection to be established. This creates problem when a Spark task is interrupted while blocking in this call (which can happen in the event of a slow connection which will eventually time out). This has bad impacts on task cancellation when `interruptOnCancel = true`.

As an example of the impact of this problem, I experienced significant numbers of uncancellable "zombie tasks" on a production cluster where several tasks were blocked trying to connect to a dead shuffle server and then continued running as zombies after I cancelled the associated Spark stage. The zombie tasks ran for several minutes with the following stack:

```
java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:460)
io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.await0(DefaultPromise.java:607)
io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.awaitUninterruptibly(DefaultPromise.java:301)
org.apache.spark.network.client.TransportClientFactory.createClient(TransportClientFactory.java:224)
org.apache.spark.network.client.TransportClientFactory.createClient(TransportClientFactory.java:179) => holding Monitor(java.lang.Object1849476028})
org.apache.spark.network.shuffle.ExternalShuffleClient$1.createAndStart(ExternalShuffleClient.java:105)
org.apache.spark.network.shuffle.RetryingBlockFetcher.fetchAllOutstanding(RetryingBlockFetcher.java:140)
org.apache.spark.network.shuffle.RetryingBlockFetcher.start(RetryingBlockFetcher.java:120)
org.apache.spark.network.shuffle.ExternalShuffleClient.fetchBlocks(ExternalShuffleClient.java:114)
org.apache.spark.storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.sendRequest(ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala:169)
org.apache.spark.storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.fetchUpToMaxBytes(ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala:
350)
org.apache.spark.storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.initialize(ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala:286)
org.apache.spark.storage.ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.<init>(ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala:120)
org.apache.spark.shuffle.BlockStoreShuffleReader.read(BlockStoreShuffleReader.scala:45)
org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ShuffledRowRDD.compute(ShuffledRowRDD.scala:169)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323)
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287)
[...]
```

As far as I can tell, `awaitUninterruptibly()` might have been used in order to avoid having to declare that methods throw `InterruptedException` (this code is written in Java, hence the need to use checked exceptions). This patch simply replaces this with a regular, interruptible `await()` call,.

This required several interface changes to declare a new checked exception (these are internal interfaces, though, and this change doesn't significantly impact binary compatibility).

An alternative approach would be to wrap `InterruptedException` into `IOException` in order to avoid having to change interfaces. The problem with this approach is that the `network-shuffle` project's `RetryingBlockFetcher` code treats `IOExceptions` as transitive failures when deciding whether to retry fetches, so throwing a wrapped `IOException` might cause an interrupted shuffle fetch to be retried, further prolonging the lifetime of a cancelled zombie task.

Note that there are three other `awaitUninterruptibly()` in the codebase, but those calls have a hard 10 second timeout and are waiting on a `close()` operation which is expected to complete near instantaneously, so the impact of uninterruptibility there is much smaller.

Manually.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #16866 from JoshRosen/SPARK-19529.

(cherry picked from commit 1c4d10b1)
Signed-off-by: Cheng Lian <lian@databricks.com>

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