Re: why CPG service notify sheepdog with downlist so many times when the node left the cluster ?

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Steven Dake <sdake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 08:11 AM, Yunkai Zhang wrote:
>> Hi Steven Dake:
>>
>> In our team, my coworkers and me are developing sheepdog which use CPG
>> service provided by corosync.
>>
>> We found that sheepdog will receive more than one confchg msg when
>> network partition occur.  For example, suppose the cluster has 4
>> nodes: N1, N2, N3, N4,  and they form a single-ring initially. After a
>> while, network partition occur, the single-ring divide into two
>> sub-ring: ring(N1, N2, N3) and ring(N4). The sheepdog in the ring(N4)
>> will receive the following confchg messages in turn:
>> Memb: N2,N3,N4  Left:N1,           Joined:null
>> memb: N3,N4       Left:N1,N2       Joined:null
>> memb: N4            Left:N1,N2,N3  Joined:null
>>
>
> Assuming there are no messages sent by cpg between these leaving events,
> this looks like a bug if totem generates 1 configuration change on this
> partition.
>

Yes, I can ensure that totem only generates 1 configuration change but
send three messages to client in this case:)

> I've copied Angus since he wrote the latest incarnation of that code ;)
>
> Regards
> -steve
>
>> I have read the corosync's code, and found that corosync send these
>> confchg messages in function: downlist_master_choose_and_send (in the
>> for loop).
>>
>> Why we send so many confchg message to CPG client(here is sheepdog)  ?
>> The fist two message will make client confusing and do more
>> meaningless work.
>>
>> Can we give the user a selection to enable/disable this downlist
>> messages? Sheepdog just want to receive the last msg in this case.
>>
>> Thank you!
>
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Yunkai Zhang
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