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Oleg Kibirev commented on CASSANDRA-4681:
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The benchmark exercised two column families. I think the key is that I am using
a large number of very small column names/values and insert concurrently from
dozens of threads (due to characteristics of the real world use case). The
system used has 24 CPU cores and an SSD raid. So basically there is a very high
rate of allocations and large number of concurrent threads hitting the same
SlabAllocator.
> SlabAllocator spends a lot of time in Thread.yield
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-4681
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4681
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 1.1.5
> Environment: OEL Linux
> Reporter: Oleg Kibirev
> Attachments: SlabAllocator.java
>
>
> When profiling high volume inserts into Cassandra running on a host with fast
> SSD and CPU, Thread.yield() invoked by SlabAllocator appeared as the top item
> in CPU samples. The fix is to return a regular byte buffer if current slab is
> being initialized by another thread. So instead of:
> if (oldOffset == UNINITIALIZED)
> {
> // The region doesn't have its data allocated yet.
> // Since we found this in currentRegion, we know that
> whoever
> // CAS-ed it there is allocating it right now. So
> spin-loop
> // shouldn't spin long!
> Thread.yield();
> continue;
> }
> do:
> if (oldOffset == UNINITIALIZED)
> return ByteBuffer.allocate(size);
> I achieved 4x speed up in my (admittedly specialized) benchmark by using an
> optimized version of SlabAllocator attached. Since this code is in the
> critical path, even doing excessive atomic instructions or allocating
> unneeded extra ByteBuffer instances has a measurable effect on performance
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