Howard Chu wrote:
Adrien Futschik wrote:
Considering that M1& M3 are on the same server and therefore have exactly the same time, if this was a time related problem, I should'nt get any "CSN too old" messages between M1&M3 and M2&M4, should I ?
I have also noticed that when M1 gets a new entry and passes it to M2&M3&M4, when M2&M3&M4 revieve it, they also pass it to M2&M3&M4 ! I don't understand why this happends but it look's very much like this is what's happening, because sometimes, M2 would have passed-it to M4, before M4 has actualy revieved the add order from M1.
I therefore happend to notice that sometimes, entries send from M1 are revieved in the wrong ordrer by other masters and therefore some entries may be skipped !!!
Yes, that makes sense. The CSN check assumes changes will always be received in the same order they were sent from the provider. Obviously in this case this assumption is wrong. You should submit an ITS for this.
This problem was discussed on the -devel list back in 2007; the code ought to be using a spanning tree/routing algorithm to ensure that when multiple routes exist for propagating a change, the change is delivered exactly once. Unfortunately no one has spent any further time on this issue since then.
But the CSN is supposed to guarantee that regardless of the order servers converge to the same status. In fact, if entries are received in different order but carry an entryCSN attribute that is newer, the newer should take place (and be propagated further through slapo-syncprov if MMR); if identical or older, should be ignored (and not propagated). If the modification that comes in implies something odd like a missing parent or so, glue entries should be created, to be replaced by the right entry as soon as it comes in. In MMR, assuming perfect symmetry, we could do something like ignoring entries that come from a provider with the entryCSN generated by another provider, under the assumption we will eventually get it from the right provider? Or better (and symmetrical) do not propagate entries whose CSN was not generated by ourselves, under the assumption the one that generated the CSN will propagate it?
p.
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