[HADOOP-10747] Support configurable retries on SASL connection failures in RPC client.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: ipc
• Target Version/s: 2.5.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Chris Nauroth
• Reporter: Chris Nauroth
• Created: 24/Jun/14 17:52
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:24
• Resolved: 25/Jun/14 00:02

Description

The RPC client includes a retry loop around SASL connection failures. Currently, this is hard-coded to a maximum of 5 retries. Let's make this configurable.