so expected!
> 在 2018年3月22日,下午2:16,James Cheng <wushuja...@gmail.com> 写道:
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>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 11:18 AM, Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> wrote:
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>> Thanks for following up James.
>>
>>> Is this the procedure that happens during every rebalance? The reason I ask
>>> is that this step:
>>>>>> As long as the leader (before or after upgrade) receives at least
>> one old version X Subscription it always sends version Assignment X back
>> (the encoded supported version is X before the leader is upgrade and Y
>> after the leader is upgraded).
>>
>> Yes, that would be the consequence.
>>
>>> This implies that the leader receives all Subscriptions before sending back
>>> any responses. Is that what actually happens? Is it possible that it would
>>> receive say 4 out of 5 Subscriptions of Y, send back a response Y, and then
>>> later receive a Subscription X? What happens in that case? Would that
>>> Subscription X then trigger another rebalance, and the whole thing starts
>>> again?
>>
>> That sounds correct. A 'delayed' Subscription could always happen --
>> even before KIP-268 -- and would trigger a new rebalance. With this
>> regard, the behavior does not change. The difference is, that we would
>> automatically downgrade the Assignment from Y to X again -- but the
>> application would not fail (as it would before the KIP).
>>
>> Do you see an issue with this behavior. The idea of the design is to
>> make Kafka Streams robust against those scenarios. Thus, if 4 apps are
>> upgraded but no.5 is not yet and no.5 is late, Kafka Streams would first
>> upgrade from X to Y and downgrade from Y to X in the second rebalance
>> when no.5 joins the group. If no.5 gets upgraded, a third rebalance
>> would upgrade to Y again.
>>
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> Sounds good.
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>> Thus, as long as not all instances are on the newest version,
>> upgrades/donwgrades of the exchanged rebalance metadata could happen
>> multiple times. However, this should not be an issue from my understanding.
>
> About “this should not be an issue”: this upgrade/downgrade is just about the
> rebalance metadata, right? Are there other associated things that will also
> have to upgrade/downgrade in sync with the rebalance metadata? For example,
> the idea for this KIP originally came up during the discussion about adding
> timestamps to RockDB state stores, which required updating the on-disk
> schema. In the case of an updated RocksDB state store but with a downgraded
> rebalance metadata... that should work, right? Because we still have updated
> code (which understands the on-disk format) but that it simply gets its
> partition assignments via the downgraded rebalance metadata?
>
> Thanks,
> -James
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> Let us know what you think about it.
>>
>>
>> -Matthias
>>
>>
>>> On 3/20/18 11:10 PM, James Cheng wrote:
>>> Sorry, I see that the VOTE started already, but I have a late question on
>>> this KIP.
>>>
>>> In the "version probing" protocol:
>>>> Detailed upgrade protocol from metadata version X to Y (with X >= 1.2):
>>>> On startup/rolling-bounce, an instance does not know what version the
>>>> leader understands and (optimistically) sends an Subscription with the
>>>> latest version Y
>>>> (Old, ie, not yet upgraded) Leader sends empty Assignment back to the
>>>> corresponding instance that sent the newer Subscription it does not
>>>> understand. The Assignment metadata only encodes both version numbers
>>>> (used-version == supported-version) as leader's supported-version X.
>>>> For all other instances the leader sends a regular Assignment in version X
>>>> back.
>>>> If an upgrade follower sends new version number Y Subscription and
>>>> receives version X Assignment with "supported-version = X", it can
>>>> downgrade to X (in-memory flag) and resends a new Subscription with old
>>>> version X to retry joining the group. To force an immediate second
>>>> rebalance, the follower does an "unsubscribe()/subscribe()/poll()"
>>>> sequence.
>>>> As long as the leader (before or after upgrade) receives at least one old
>>>> version X Subscription it always sends version Assignment X back (the
>>>> encoded supported version is X before the leader is upgrade and Y after
>>>> the leader is upgraded).
>>>> If an upgraded instance receives an Assigment it always checks the leaders
>>>> supported-version and update its downgraded "used-version" if possible
>>>
>>> Is this the procedure that happens during every rebalance? The reason I ask
>>> is that this step:
>>>>> As long as the leader (before or after upgrade) receives at least one old
>>>>> version X Subscription it always sends version Assignment X back (the
>>>>> encoded supported version is X before the leader is upgrade and Y after
>>>>> the leader is upgraded).
>>>
>>> This implies that the leader receives all Subscriptions before sending back
>>> any responses. Is that what actually happens? Is it possible that it would
>>> receive say 4 out of 5 Subscriptions of Y, send back a response Y, and then
>>> later receive a Subscription X? What happens in that case? Would that
>>> Subscription X then trigger another rebalance, and the whole thing starts
>>> again?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -James
>>>
>>>> On Mar 19, 2018, at 5:04 PM, Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Guozhang,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your comments.
>>>>
>>>> 2: I think my main concern is, that 1.2 would be "special" release that
>>>> everybody need to use to upgrade. As an alternative, we could say that
>>>> we add the config in 1.2 and keep it for 2 additional releases (1.3 and
>>>> 1.4) but remove it in 1.5. This gives users more flexibility and does
>>>> force not force user to upgrade to a specific version but also allows us
>>>> to not carry the tech debt forever. WDYT about this? If users upgrade on
>>>> an regular basis, this approach could avoid a forces update with high
>>>> probability as the will upgrade to either 1.2/1.3/1.4 anyway at some
>>>> point. Thus, only if users don't upgrade for a very long time, they are
>>>> forces to do 2 upgrades with an intermediate version.
>>>>
>>>> 4. Updated the KIP to remove the ".x" suffix
>>>>
>>>> 5. Updated the KIP accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> -Matthias
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/19/18 10:33 AM, Guozhang Wang wrote:
>>>>> Yup :)
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bq. some snippet like ProduceRequest / ProduceRequest
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you mean ProduceRequest / Response ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About 2: yeah I guess this is a subjective preference. My main concern
>>>>>>> about keeping the config / handling code beyond 1.2 release is that it
>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> become a non-cleanable tech debt forever, as fewer and fewer users would
>>>>>>> need to upgrade from 0.10.x and 1.1.x, and eventually we will need to
>>>>>>> maintain this for nearly no one. On the other hand, I agree that this
>>>>>> tech
>>>>>>> debt is not too large. So if more people feel this is a good tradeoff to
>>>>>>> pay for not enforcing users from older versions to upgrade twice I'm
>>>>>> happen
>>>>>>> to change my opinion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A few more minor comments:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 4. For the values of "upgrade.from", could we simply to only
>>>>>>> major.minor?
>>>>>>> I.e. "0.10.0" than "0.10.0.x" ? Since we never changed compatibility
>>>>>>> behavior in bug fix releases we would not need to specify a bug-fix
>>>>>> version
>>>>>>> to distinguish ever.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5. Could you also present the encoding format in subscription /
>>>>>> assignment
>>>>>>> metadata bytes in version 2, and in future versions (i.e. which first
>>>>>> bytes
>>>>>>> would be kept moving forward), for readers to better understand the
>>>>>>> proposal? some snippet like ProduceRequest / ProduceRequest in
>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-
>>>>>>> 98+-+Exactly+Once+Delivery+and+Transactional+Messaging
>>>>>>> would be very helpful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Guozhang
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your comments.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. Because the old leader cannot decode the new Subscription it can
>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>> send an empty assignment back. The idea to send empty assignments to
>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>> members is interesting. I will try this out in an PR to see how it
>>>>>>> behaves.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. I don't see an issue with keeping config `upgrade.from` for future
>>>>>>>> releases. Personally, I would prefer to not force users to do two
>>>>>>>> upgrades if they want to go from pre-1.2 to post-1.2 version. Is there
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> technical argument why you want to get rid of the config? What
>>>>>>>> disadvantages do you see keeping `upgrade.from` beyond 1.2 release?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Keeping the config is just a few lines of code in `StreamsConfig` as
>>>>>>>> well we a single `if` statement in `StreamsPartitionAssignor` to force
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> downgrade (cf
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4636/files#diff-
>>>>>>>> 392371c29384e33bb09ed342e7696c68R201)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3. I updated the KIP accordingly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -Matthias
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 3/15/18 3:19 PM, Guozhang Wang wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello Matthias, thanks for the KIP. Here are some comments:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1. "For all other instances the leader sends a regular Assignment in
>>>>>>>>> version X back." Does that mean the leader will exclude any member of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> group whose protocol version that it does not understand? For
>>>>>> example,
>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>>> we have A, B, C with A the leader, and B bounced with the newer
>>>>>>> version.
>>>>>>>> In
>>>>>>>>> the first rebalance, A will only consider {A, C} for assignment while
>>>>>>>>> sending empty assignment to B. And then later when B downgrades will
>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>>> re-assign the tasks to it again? I felt this is unnecessarily
>>>>>>> increasing
>>>>>>>>> the num. rebalances and the total latency. Could the leader just
>>>>>> sends
>>>>>>>>> empty assignment to everyone, and since upon receiving the empty
>>>>>>>> assignment
>>>>>>>>> each thread will not create / restore any tasks and will not clean up
>>>>>>> its
>>>>>>>>> local state (so that the prevCachedTasks are not lost in future
>>>>>>>> rebalances)
>>>>>>>>> and re-joins immediately, if users choose to bounce an instance once
>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> in RUNNING state the total time of rolling upgrades will be reduced.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2. If we want to allow upgrading from 1.1- versions to any of the
>>>>>>> future
>>>>>>>>> versions beyond 1.2, then we'd always need to keep the special
>>>>>> handling
>>>>>>>>> logic for this two rolling-bounce mechanism plus a config that we
>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>> never be able to deprecate; on the other hand, if the version probing
>>>>>>>>> procedure is fast, I think the extra operational cost from upgrading
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>> 1.1- to a future version, to upgrading from 1.1- to 1.2, and then
>>>>>>> another
>>>>>>>>> upgrade from 1.2 to a future version could be small. So depending on
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> experimental result of the upgrade latency, I'd suggest considering
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> trade-off of the extra code/config needed maintaining for the special
>>>>>>>>> handling.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 3. Testing plan: could you elaborate a bit more on the actual
>>>>>>>> upgrade-paths
>>>>>>>>> we should test? For example, I'm thinking the following:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> a. 0.10.0 -> 1.2
>>>>>>>>> b. 1.1 -> 1.2
>>>>>>>>> c. 1.2 -> 1.3 (simulated v4)
>>>>>>>>> d. 0.10.0 -> 1.3 (simulated v4)
>>>>>>>>> e. 1.1 -> 1.3 (simulated v4)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Guozhang
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Matthias J. Sax <
>>>>>>> matth...@confluent.io
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I want to propose KIP-268 to allow rebalance metadata version
>>>>>> upgrades
>>>>>>>>>> in Kafka Streams:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-
>>>>>>>>>> 268%3A+Simplify+Kafka+Streams+Rebalance+Metadata+Upgrade
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Looking forward to your feedback.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -Matthias
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> -- Guozhang
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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