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Benedict Elliott Smith commented on CASSANDRA-15229:
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Hi [~jasonstack], I'm on leave at the moment, so I cannot properly review your
patch. However I see some potential problems:
Recirculating immediately will lead to greater inefficiency in allocation, as
we will attempt to reuse partially freed chunks in preference to entirely freed
chunks, leading to a great deal more churn in the active blocks. This will
affect the networking pooling as much as the chunk cache. At the very least
this behaviour should be enabled only for the {{ChunkCache}}, but ideally might
have e.g. two queues, one with guaranteed-free chunks, another (perhaps for
ease a superset) containing those chunks that might or mightn't be free.
This isn't a _trivial_ behavioural change, and I continue to wonder if using
{{Unsafe.allocateMemory}} wouldn't be simpler, more efficient, less risky and
produce less fragmentation.
> BufferPool Regression
> ---------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-15229
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15229
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Local/Caching
> Reporter: Benedict Elliott Smith
> Assignee: ZhaoYang
> Priority: Normal
> Fix For: 4.0, 4.0-beta
>
> Attachments: 15229-count.png, 15229-hit-rate.png,
> 15229-recirculate-count.png, 15229-recirculate-hit-rate.png,
> 15229-recirculate-size.png, 15229-recirculate.png, 15229-size.png
>
>
> The BufferPool was never intended to be used for a {{ChunkCache}}, and we
> need to either change our behaviour to handle uncorrelated lifetimes or use
> something else. This is particularly important with the default chunk size
> for compressed sstables being reduced. If we address the problem, we should
> also utilise the BufferPool for native transport connections like we do for
> internode messaging, and reduce the number of pooling solutions we employ.
> Probably the best thing to do is to improve BufferPool’s behaviour when used
> for things with uncorrelated lifetimes, which essentially boils down to
> tracking those chunks that have not been freed and re-circulating them when
> we run out of completely free blocks. We should probably also permit
> instantiating separate {{BufferPool}}, so that we can insulate internode
> messaging from the {{ChunkCache}}, or at least have separate memory bounds
> for each, and only share fully-freed chunks.
> With these improvements we can also safely increase the {{BufferPool}} chunk
> size to 128KiB or 256KiB, to guarantee we can fit compressed pages and reduce
> the amount of global coordination and per-allocation overhead. We don’t need
> 1KiB granularity for allocations, nor 16 byte granularity for tiny
> allocations.
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