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Force execution of finish shard bulk request #51957

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Currently the shard bulk request can be rejected by the write threadpool
after a mapping update. This introduces a scenario where the mapping
listener thread will attempt to finish the request and fsync. This
thread can potentially be a transport thread. This commit fixes this
issue by forcing the finish action to happen on the write threadpool.

Fixes #51904.

Currently the shard bulk request can be rejected by the write threadpool
after a mapping update. This introduces a scenario where the mapping
listener thread will attempt to finish the request and fsync. This
thread can potentially be a transport thread. This commit fixes this
issue by forcing the finish action to happen on the write threadpool.

Fixes elastic#51904.
@Tim-Brooks Tim-Brooks added >bug :Distributed Indexing/CRUD A catch all label for issues around indexing, updating and getting a doc by id. Not search. v8.0.0 v7.7.0 labels Feb 5, 2020
@Tim-Brooks Tim-Brooks requested a review from jasontedor February 5, 2020 17:52
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Pinging @elastic/es-distributed (:Distributed/CRUD)

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How far should we back port this?

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I left a comment for consideration.


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I was thinking that rather than scheduling only finishRequest on the write thread pool, we should execute the entirety of onRejection on the write thread pool (and still forcing execution, since rejecting execution here would be very bad):

ActionListener.wrap(v -> executor.execute(this), this::onRejection)) == false) {

The reason I think this is because we're still doing work in onRejection that is linear in the number of documents in the bulk request. It seems we'd want to get that off of the networking/cluster state applier thread too given that we're going to fork anyway.

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I wonder if we should instead let onRejection force-push the onRejection handling onto the queue of the requested executor. The current "direct" handling kind of prioritizes the onRejection handling over everything else in the queue, which I think there is really no good reason for.

Looking at various onRejection handlers, some call listener.onFailure and verifying that none of those do bad things is tricky.

Also notice that onAfter is also called in the caller thread when requests are rejected, this poses similar issues (not that I found a smoking gun there).

Finally, notice that AbstractRunnable.onRejection by default calls onFailure.

I doubt that we careful consider that onAfter and onFailure might run in the current thread when using AbstractRunnable and executing the onRejection handling on the target thread-pool would fix this, making it easier to reason about.

That said, I think this PR is good and I am not objecting to it going in. Following my suggestion is likely to surface a few additional things to resolve.

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I made @jasontedor change.

I think maybe Henning's comment about maybe onRejection should be executed on the thread pool anyway is beyond the scope of this PR? Or at least a larger discussion.

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@tbrooks8, yes, that is fine, I just found it most natural to put it here. I will open a PR with that change so we can discuss based on that PR instead.

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I left a comment, but this LGTM.

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It's probably worth a comment here why we fork to the executor (since it's not obvious from the code).

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How far should we back port this?

I think to the 7.6, 7.x, and master branches.

@Tim-Brooks Tim-Brooks merged commit 0dd1ed8 into elastic:master Feb 15, 2020
Tim-Brooks added a commit to Tim-Brooks/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2020
Currently the shard bulk request can be rejected by the write threadpool
after a mapping update. This introduces a scenario where the mapping
listener thread will attempt to finish the request and fsync. This
thread can potentially be a transport thread. This commit fixes this
issue by forcing the finish action to happen on the write threadpool.

Fixes elastic#51904.
Tim-Brooks added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 25, 2020
Currently the shard bulk request can be rejected by the write threadpool
after a mapping update. This introduces a scenario where the mapping
listener thread will attempt to finish the request and fsync. This
thread can potentially be a transport thread. This commit fixes this
issue by forcing the finish action to happen on the write threadpool.

Fixes #51904.
Tim-Brooks added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 25, 2020
Currently the shard bulk request can be rejected by the write threadpool
after a mapping update. This introduces a scenario where the mapping
listener thread will attempt to finish the request and fsync. This
thread can potentially be a transport thread. This commit fixes this
issue by forcing the finish action to happen on the write threadpool.

Fixes #51904.
@Tim-Brooks Tim-Brooks deleted the force_shard_finish branch April 30, 2020 18:27
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