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Neha Narkhede commented on KAFKA-1449:
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Interesting. Would you like to write up a proposal for the suggested changes?
We can take it from there.
> Extend wire protocol to allow CRC32C
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> Key: KAFKA-1449
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1449
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: consumer
> Reporter: Albert Strasheim
> Assignee: Neha Narkhede
> Fix For: 0.9.0
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> Howdy
> We are currently building out a number of Kafka consumers in Go, based on a
> patched version of the Sarama library that Shopify released a while back.
> We have a reasonably fast serialization protocol (Cap'n Proto), a 10G network
> and lots of cores. We have various consumers computing all kinds of
> aggregates on a reasonably high volume access log stream (1.1e6 messages/sec
> peak, about 500-600 bytes per message uncompressed).
> When profiling our consumer, our single hottest function (until we disabled
> it), was the CRC32 checksum validation, since the deserialization and
> aggregation in these consumers is pretty cheap.
> We believe things could be improved by extending the wire protocol to support
> CRC-32C (Castagnoli), since SSE 4.2 has an instruction to accelerate its
> calculation.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4#SSE4.2
> It might be hard to use from Java, but consumers written in most other
> languages will benefit a lot.
> To give you an idea, here are some benchmarks for the Go CRC32 functions
> running on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3540M CPU @ 3.00GHz core:
> BenchmarkCrc32KB 90196 ns/op 363.30 MB/s
> BenchmarkCrcCastagnoli32KB 3404 ns/op 9624.42 MB/s
> I believe BenchmarkCrc32 written in C would do about 600-700 MB/sec, and the
> CRC32-C speed should be close to what one achieves in Go.
> (Met Todd and Clark at the meetup last night. Thanks for the great
> presentation!)
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