Re: [tabled patch 1/1] fix the selection of chunk

On 05/25/2010 11:30 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> If a chunkserver goes down, tabled sometimes throws a phantom "object
> not found". It happens because we keep hitting the same down node and
> exhaust the retries. The existing code calls rand() every time and
> hopes for the best, but this is too likely to end poorly.
>
> The fix is to only randomize once before the retry loop, and then
> cycle through all available nodes deterministically. The same fix
> would apply even if we used a better technique to select an available
> chunkserver than just random.
>
> Also, we refactor the code just a little bit, so that the enormous
> function object_get_body gets somewhat easier to follow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev<[email protected]>

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