Re: [Patch 07/12] Chunk: retry initial CLD session open

On 04/18/2010 12:41 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> This was an error in the conversion to ncld. In the cldc code, we
> kick the state machine and the natural retries do the rest. Any
> failures occure there. But in ncld the original kick can fail too.
>
> Five retries give CLD server time to reboot. If it's down, then
> clients refuse to start. This may be a bad idea, or may be not.
> We may yet change the retries to be infinite, but for now it's
> better if builds terminate somehow in case of unexpected problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev<[email protected]>
>
> ---
>   server/cldu.c |   12 ++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> commit 44cdb98d2cceb2f4e081db2ee38ec60f1c1a8d8d
> Author: Master<[email protected]>
> Date:   Sat Apr 17 19:50:06 2010 -0600
>
>      Retry the initial connection to the CLD server.

In the short term, this is acceptable.

In the medium term, this is a protocol detail that should be handled 
somewhere in libcldc.  We want all applications to behave the same way, 
including the method by which they attempt to contact a master.

Because there could be multiple CLD servers, you cannot think of retries 
in the context of a single server.  This is crucial WRT work on #replica 
branch, but it is also somewhat relevant to #master, because we might 
have multiple servers listed in SRV records as fallbacks from which to 
choose.

You don't want each application implementing this logic, because we want 
to enforce some level of predictability in master-seeking behavior, and 
in making decisions about when contacts attempts for -all- servers 
should cease, as opposed to contact attempts for a -single- server.  You 
don't want it to take 30 minutes to try all servers in a cluster, 
retrying a number of times on server A, then moving on to server B, etc.

	Jeff