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Vijay edited comment on CASSANDRA-3578 at 11/7/13 7:04 PM:
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You only call force when you think there is something dirty, not when the 
buffer does, 
{quote}
Ahaa.... that might be an over sight, we can call buffer.force all the time and 
let the OS decide if it has to sync the filesystem. If we do that then we just 
need to stop during the recovery when we have a corrupted columns (which are 
because the os or the force didnt complete the fsync completely).

{quote}
How ugly would it get to either wait for previous (in CL order) mutations 
before syncing
{quote}
We can do that with another counter which holds the bytes written by all the 
threads and comparing it with the allocated..... We dont need lock in that case.


was (Author: vijay2...@yahoo.com):
{quote}
You only call force when you think there is something dirty, not when the 
buffer does, 
{quote}
Ahaa.... that might be an over sight, we can call buffer.force all the time and 
let the OS decide if it has to sync the filesystem. If we do that then we just 
need to stop when we have a corrupted columns (which are because the os or the 
force didnt complete the fsync completely).

{quote}
How ugly would it get to either wait for previous (in CL order) mutations 
before syncing
{quote}
We can do that with another counter which holds the bytes written by all the 
threads and comparing it with the allocated..... We dont need lock in that case.

> Multithreaded commitlog
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3578
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3578
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Vijay
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: performance
>         Attachments: 0001-CASSANDRA-3578.patch, ComitlogStress.java, 
> Current-CL.png, Multi-Threded-CL.png, parallel_commit_log_2.patch
>
>
> Brian Aker pointed out a while ago that allowing multiple threads to modify 
> the commitlog simultaneously (reserving space for each with a CAS first, the 
> way we do in the SlabAllocator.Region.allocate) can improve performance, 
> since you're not bottlenecking on a single thread to do all the copying and 
> CRC computation.
> Now that we use mmap'd CommitLog segments (CASSANDRA-3411) this becomes 
> doable.
> (moved from CASSANDRA-622, which was getting a bit muddled.)



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