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T Jake Luciani commented on CASSANDRA-11206: -------------------------------------------- I think it would make sense to expose a metric of what kind of index cache hit we have Shallow or Regular > Support large partitions on the 3.0 sstable format > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-11206 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11206 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Robert Stupp > Fix For: 3.x > > Attachments: 11206-gc.png, trunk-gc.png > > > Cassandra saves a sample of IndexInfo objects that store the offset within > each partition of every 64KB (by default) range of rows. To find a row, we > binary search this sample, then scan the partition of the appropriate range. > The problem is that this scales poorly as partitions grow: on a cache miss, > we deserialize the entire set of IndexInfo, which both creates a lot of GC > overhead (as noted in CASSANDRA-9754) but is also non-negligible i/o activity > (relative to reading a single 64KB row range) as partitions get truly large. > We introduced an "offset map" in CASSANDRA-10314 that allows us to perform > the IndexInfo bsearch while only deserializing IndexInfo that we need to > compare against, i.e. log(N) deserializations. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)