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Jeremiah Jordan commented on CASSANDRA-4718:
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bq. I can argue from running cassandra in production for almost four years that
these metrics are not very helpful. At best they indicate that 'something' is
amiss ("hey, pending tasks are getting higher"), but cannot give you a real
clue as to what is wrong (gc, I/O contention, cpu throttling). As we got these
data points largely for free from TPE, I guess it made sense to expose them,
but if we have to go out of our way to fabricate a subset of them for FJP, I
propose we drop them going forward (for FJP, at least).
I would argue they are very useful because they give you that high level
"something is wrong", so if its easy to keep them, I am very +1 on that.
> More-efficient ExecutorService for improved throughput
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-4718
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4718
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jason Brown
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: performance
> Fix For: 2.1.0
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> Attachments: 4718-v1.patch, PerThreadQueue.java, baq vs trunk.png, op
> costs of various queues.ods, stress op rate with various queues.ods,
> v1-stress.out
>
>
> Currently all our execution stages dequeue tasks one at a time. This can
> result in contention between producers and consumers (although we do our best
> to minimize this by using LinkedBlockingQueue).
> One approach to mitigating this would be to make consumer threads do more
> work in "bulk" instead of just one task per dequeue. (Producer threads tend
> to be single-task oriented by nature, so I don't see an equivalent
> opportunity there.)
> BlockingQueue has a drainTo(collection, int) method that would be perfect for
> this. However, no ExecutorService in the jdk supports using drainTo, nor
> could I google one.
> What I would like to do here is create just such a beast and wire it into (at
> least) the write and read stages. (Other possible candidates for such an
> optimization, such as the CommitLog and OutboundTCPConnection, are not
> ExecutorService-based and will need to be one-offs.)
> AbstractExecutorService may be useful. The implementations of
> ICommitLogExecutorService may also be useful. (Despite the name these are not
> actual ExecutorServices, although they share the most important properties of
> one.)
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