Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3859#discussion_r115721158
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flink-contrib/flink-statebackend-rocksdb/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/contrib/streaming/state/RocksDBKeyedStateBackend.java
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@@ -880,7 +882,9 @@ KeyedStateHandle materializeSnapshot() throws Exception
{
sstFiles.putAll(newSstFiles);
sstFiles.putAll(oldSstFiles);
- stateBackend.materializedSstFiles.put(checkpointId,
sstFiles);
+ synchronized (stateBackend.asyncSnapshotLock) {
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I wonder if this is enough. As soon as we assume that there can be parallel
incremental snapshots (let's say s1 and s2) what could happen is the following
race:
- s1 completes and acknowledges to checkpoint coordinator, but the
notifyCheckpointComplete did not yet arrive.
- s2 runs and checks in `materializedSstFiles`, where it can not find
anything from s1, yet.
- s2 will perceive some files as new, which s1 has already registered in
the shared state.
- notifyCheckpointComplete from s1 arrives.
- s2 acknowledges. Now, in the `SharedStateRegistry`, the handles from s2
will try to register some sst files as new, which have been registered by s1
before (without s1 noticing). On the checkpoint coordinator, the
`RocksDBIncrementalStateHandle` will fail int the precondition check
`Preconditions.checkState(referenceCount == 1);` as soon as it tries to
register it's "new" sst files with `SharedStateRegistry`.
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