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Distributed Commit

Distributed Commit. Example. Consider a chain of stores and suppose a manager wants to query all the stores, find the inventory of toothbrushes at each, and issue instructions to move toothbrushes from store to store in order to balance the inventory.

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Distributed Commit

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  1. Distributed Commit

  2. Example • Consider a chain of stores and suppose a manager • wants to query all the stores, • find the inventory of toothbrushes at each, and • issue instructions to move toothbrushes from store to store in order to balance the inventory. • The operation is done by a global transaction T that has component Ti at the ith store and a component T0 at the office where the manager is located. • The sequence of activities performed by T is as follows: • Component T0 is created at the site of the manager. • T0 sends messages to all the stores instructing them to create components Ti. • Each Tiexecutes a query at store i to discover the number of toothbrushes in inventory and reports this number to T0. • T0 takes these numbers and determines, by some algorithm, what shipments of toothbrushes are desired. • T0 then sends messages such as "store 10 should ship 500 toothbrushes to store 7" to the appropriate stores. • Stores receiving instructions update their inventory and perform the shipments.

  3. What can go wrong? Example 1 • Suppose a bug in the algorithm to redistribute toothbrushes might cause store 10 to be instructed to ship more toothbrushes than it has. • T10 will abort, and no toothbrushes will be shipped from store 10; • Neither will the inventory at store 10 be changed. • However, T7 detects no problems and commits at store 7, updating its inventory to reflect the supposedly shipped toothbrushes. • Now, not only has T failed to execute atomically (since T10 never completes), but it has left the distributed database in an inconsistent state. Example 2 • Suppose T10 replies to T0'sfirst message by telling its inventory of toothbrushes. • However, the machine at store 10 then crashes, and the instructions from T0are never received by T10. • Can distributed transaction T ever commit? What should T10 do when its site recovers?

  4. Two­Phase Commit Assume a transaction T has parts executing at several sites. How can they agree to commit T? Phase 1 1. Coordinator (site originating the transaction) does: • Log <Prepare T>. • Send prepare T messages to all sites involved in T . 2. Each site receiving this message decides to commit T or abort T , and • Logs either <Ready T> or <Don't commit T>, and • Sends to the coordinator the corresponding message: either ready T or don't commit T.

  5. Phase 2 Phase 2 1. Coordinator decides to commit or abort. Commit if all ready messages received; abort if at least one abort or timeout. • Log <Commit T> or <Abort T>. • Send commit T or abort T messages to all sites involved in T . 2. Sites receiving these messages log them and follow instruction.

  6. Exercise Site 0 is the coordinator. Sites 1 and 2 are the components. Give an example of the sequence of messages that would occur if site 1 wants to commit and site 2 wants to abort. (0,1,P) (0,2,P) (1,0,R) (2,0,D) (0,1,A) (0,2,A)

  7. Recovery • If a site fails with <Commit T> or <Abort T> on its log, it can redo or undo, respectively. • If a site fails with <Don't commit T> as its last T entry, it knows the coordinator could not have signaled commit, so it may abort T and undo. • If a site fails with <Ready T> as its last T entry, it doesn't know what has happened to T; it must ask the coordinator (or any other site).

  8. Recovery When Coordinator Fails Other sites elect a leader and try to figure out what happened. • Some site has <Commit T>on its log. • Then the original coordinator must have wanted to send commit Tmessages everywhere, and it is safe to commit T. • Some site has <Abort T>on its log. • Then the original coordinator must have decided to abort T, and it is safe for the new coordinator to order that action. • No site has <Commit T>or <Abort T>on its log, but at least one site does not have <Ready T>on its log. • Then we know that the old coordinator never received ready Tfrom this site and therefore could not have decided to commit. • So, it’s safe for the new coordinator to decide to abort T.

  9. Recovery When Coordinator Fails 4. There is no <Commit T>or <Abort T>to be found, but every surviving site has <Ready T>. • We can’t be sure whether the old coordinator found some reason to abort Tor not; • it could have decided to do so because of actions at its own site, or • because of a don't commit Tmessage from another failed site. • Or the old coordinator may have decided to commit Tand already committed its local component of T. • Thus, the new coordinator is not able to decide whether to commit or abort Tand must wait until the original coordinator recovers.

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