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Commit e1a4bff79 applied Kafka client-side timeout to the entire produce
operation context, which breaks Schema Registry consumer initialization.
The bug:
- Schema Registry Produce request has 60000ms timeout
- This timeout was being applied to entire broker operation context
- Consumer initialization takes time (joins group, gets assignments, seeks, polls)
- If initialization isn't done before 60s, context times out
- Publish returns "context deadline exceeded" error
- Schema Registry times out
The fix:
- Remove context.WithTimeout() calls from produce handlers
- Revert to NOT applying client timeout to internal broker operations
- This allows consumer initialization to take as long as needed
- Kafka request will still timeout at protocol level naturally
NOTE: Consumer still not sending Fetch requests - there's likely a deeper
issue with consumer group coordination or partition assignment in the
gateway, separate from this timeout issue.
This removes the obvious timeout bug but may not completely fix SR init.
debug: Add instrumentation for Noop record timeout investigation
- Added critical debug logging to server.go connection acceptance
- Added handleProduce entry point logging
- Added 30+ debug statements to produce.go for Noop record tracing
- Created comprehensive investigation report
CRITICAL FINDING: Gateway accepts connections but requests hang in HandleConn()
request reading loop - no requests ever reach processRequestSync()
Files modified:
- weed/mq/kafka/gateway/server.go: Connection acceptance and HandleConn logging
- weed/mq/kafka/protocol/produce.go: Request entry logging and Noop tracing
See /tmp/INVESTIGATION_FINAL_REPORT.md for full analysis
Issue: Schema Registry Noop record write times out after 60 seconds
Root Cause: Kafka protocol request reading hangs in HandleConn loop
Status: Requires further debugging of request parsing logic in handler.go
debug: Add request reading loop instrumentation to handler.go
CRITICAL FINDING: Requests ARE being read and queued!
- Request header parsing works correctly
- Requests are successfully sent to data/control plane channels
- apiKey=3 (FindCoordinator) requests visible in logs
- Request queuing is NOT the bottleneck
Remaining issue: No Produce (apiKey=0) requests seen from Schema Registry
Hypothesis: Schema Registry stuck in metadata/coordinator discovery
Debug logs added to trace:
- Message size reading
- Message body reading
- API key/version/correlation ID parsing
- Request channel queuing
Next: Investigate why Produce requests not appearing
discovery: Add Fetch API logging - confirms consumer never initializes
SMOKING GUN CONFIRMED: Consumer NEVER sends Fetch requests!
Testing shows:
- Zero Fetch (apiKey=1) requests logged from Schema Registry
- Consumer never progresses past initialization
- This proves consumer group coordination is broken
Root Cause Confirmed:
The issue is NOT in Produce/Noop record handling.
The issue is NOT in message serialization.
The issue IS:
- Consumer cannot join group (JoinGroup/SyncGroup broken?)
- Consumer cannot assign partitions
- Consumer cannot begin fetching
This causes:
1. KafkaStoreReaderThread.doWork() hangs in consumer.poll()
2. Reader never signals initialization complete
3. Producer waiting for Noop ack times out
4. Schema Registry startup fails after 60 seconds
Next investigation:
- Add logging for JoinGroup (apiKey=11)
- Add logging for SyncGroup (apiKey=14)
- Add logging for Heartbeat (apiKey=12)
- Determine where in initialization the consumer gets stuck
Added Fetch API explicit logging that confirms it's never called.
SeaweedMQ Message Queue on SeaweedFS (WIP, not ready)
What are the use cases it is designed for?
Message queues are like water pipes. Messages flow in the pipes to their destinations.
However, what if a flood comes? Of course, you can increase the number of partitions, add more brokers, restart, and watch the traffic level closely.
Sometimes the flood is expected. For example, backfill some old data in batch, and switch to online messages. You may want to ensure enough brokers to handle the data and reduce them later to cut cost.
SeaweedMQ is designed for use cases that need to:
- Receive and save large number of messages.
- Handle spike traffic automatically.
What is special about SeaweedMQ?
- Separate computation and storage nodes to scale independently.
- Unlimited storage space by adding volume servers.
- Unlimited message brokers to handle incoming messages.
- Offline messages can be operated as normal files.
- Scale up and down with auto split and merge message topics.
- Topics can automatically split into segments when traffic increases, and vice verse.
- Pass messages by reference instead of copying.
- Clients can optionally upload the messages first and just submit the references.
- Drastically reduce the broker load.
- Stateless brokers
- All brokers are equal. One broker is dynamically picked as the leader.
- Add brokers at any time.
- Allow rolling restart brokers or remove brokers at a pace.
Design
How it works?
Brokers are just computation nodes without storage. When a broker starts, it reports itself to masters. Among all the brokers, one of them will be selected as the leader by the masters.
A topic needs to define its partition key on its messages.
Messages for a topic are divided into segments. One segment can cover a range of partitions. A segment can be split into 2 segments, or 2 neighboring segments can be merged back to one segment.
During write time, the client will ask the broker leader for a few brokers to process the segment.
The broker leader will check whether the segment already has assigned the brokers. If not, select a few brokers based on their loads, save the selection into filer, and tell the client.
The client will write the messages for this segment to the selected brokers.
Failover
The broker leader does not contain any state. If it fails, the masters will select a different broker.
For a segment, if any one of the selected brokers is down, the remaining brokers should try to write received messages to the filer, and close the segment to the clients.
Then the clients should start a new segment. The masters should assign other healthy brokers to handle the new segment.
So any brokers can go down without losing data.
Auto Split or Merge
(The idea is learned from Pravega.)
The brokers should report its traffic load to the broker leader periodically.
If any segment has too much load, the broker leader will ask the brokers to tell the client to close current one and create two new segments.
If 2 neighboring segments have the combined load below average load per segment, the broker leader will ask the brokers to tell the client to close this 2 segments and create a new segment.