com.netflix.loadbalancer

Class ServerListSubsetFilter<T extends Server>

java.lang.Object

com.netflix.loadbalancer.AbstractServerListFilter<T>

com.netflix.loadbalancer.ZoneAffinityServerListFilter<T>

com.netflix.loadbalancer.ServerListSubsetFilter<T>

Type Parameters:

T -

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.netflix.client.IClientConfigAware, ServerListFilter<T>, java.util.Comparator<T>

public class ServerListSubsetFilter<T extends Server>
extends ZoneAffinityServerListFilter<T>
implements com.netflix.client.IClientConfigAware, java.util.Comparator<T>

A server list filter that limits the number of the servers used by the load balancer to be the subset of all servers. This is useful if the server farm is large (e.g., in the hundreds) and making use of every one of them and keeping the connections in http client's connection pool is unnecessary. It also has the capability of eviction of relatively unhealthy servers by comparing the total network failures and concurrent connections.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ServerListSubsetFilter()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	compare(T server1, T server2) Function to sort the list by server health condition, with unhealthy servers before healthy servers.
java.util.List<T>	getFilteredListOfServers(java.util.List<T> servers) Given all the servers, keep only a stable subset of servers to use.
void	initWithNiwsConfig(com.netflix.client.config.IClientConfig clientConfig)

Methods inherited from class com.netflix.loadbalancer.ZoneAffinityServerListFilter

toString

Methods inherited from class com.netflix.loadbalancer.AbstractServerListFilter

getLoadBalancerStats, setLoadBalancerStats

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

ServerListSubsetFilter

public ServerListSubsetFilter()

Method Detail

initWithNiwsConfig

public void initWithNiwsConfig(com.netflix.client.config.IClientConfig clientConfig)

Specified by:

initWithNiwsConfig in interface com.netflix.client.IClientConfigAware

Overrides:

initWithNiwsConfig in class ZoneAffinityServerListFilter<T extends Server>

getFilteredListOfServers

public java.util.List<T> getFilteredListOfServers(java.util.List<T> servers)

Given all the servers, keep only a stable subset of servers to use. This method keeps the current list of subset in use and keep returning the same list, with exceptions to relatively unhealthy servers, which are defined as the following:

• Servers with their concurrent connection count exceeding the client configuration for <clientName>.<nameSpace>.ServerListSubsetFilter.eliminationConnectionThresold (default is 0)
• Servers with their failure count exceeding the client configuration for <clientName>.<nameSpace>.ServerListSubsetFilter.eliminationFailureThresold (default is 0)
• If the servers evicted above is less than the forced eviction percentage as defined by client configuration <clientName>.<nameSpace>.ServerListSubsetFilter.forceEliminatePercent (default is 10%, or 0.1), the remaining servers will be sorted by their health status and servers will worst health status will be forced evicted.

After the elimination, new servers will be randomly chosen from all servers pool to keep the number of the subset unchanged.

Specified by:

getFilteredListOfServers in interface ServerListFilter<T extends Server>

Overrides:

getFilteredListOfServers in class ZoneAffinityServerListFilter<T extends Server>

compare

public int compare(T server1,
          T server2)

Function to sort the list by server health condition, with unhealthy servers before healthy servers. The servers are first sorted by failures count, and then concurrent connection count.

Specified by:

compare in interface java.util.Comparator<T extends Server>