[CASSANDRA-17613] Avoid getting hanging repairs due to repair message timeouts

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.7, 4.1-beta1
• Component/s: Consistency/Repair
• Bug Category: Degradation - Slow Use Case
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: Adhoc Test
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.0-alpha1

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/5beab63b5550efb5e31e5005f90649661a9fe595

Test and Documentation Plan

cci run

• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Marcus Eriksson

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

David Capwell

• Created: 09/May/22 08:54
• Updated: 05/Oct/22 22:22
• Resolved: 29/Aug/22 11:35

Description

In 4.0 repair messages can get expired before reaching a replica, this causes repairs to hang.

CASSANDRA-16909 is meant to fix this, but we need a stopgap fix in 4.0.