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Hongchao Deng commented on ZOOKEEPER-2024:
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bq. imagine a bunch of reads blocked by a write on a client ...
A technique I can think of on client side is buffering all requests and then
multiplexing those requests into multiple sessions to achieve non-blocking.
Nonetheless my point isn't about how to handle heavy read traffic. It is about
putting the load on client side as much as possible instead of server side to
achieve scalability. This sounds like throughput tuning for user optimized
activity -- If a user know it is heavy read and there would be non conflicted
requests, should he just create different sessions for those requests to
achieve non-blocking? If ZK can help users to take care of it, my intuition
goes directly to client side. Right?
> Major throughput improvement with mixed workloads
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ZOOKEEPER-2024
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2024
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: quorum, server
> Reporter: Kfir Lev-Ari
> Assignee: Kfir Lev-Ari
> Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-2024.patch
>
>
> The patch is applied to the commit processor, and solves two problems:
> 1. Stalling - once the commit processor encounters a local write request, it
> stalls local processing of all sessions until it receives a commit of that
> request from the leader.
> In mixed workloads, this severely hampers performance as it does not allow
> read-only sessions to proceed at faster speed than read-write ones.
> 2. Starvation - as long as there are read requests to process, older remote
> committed write requests are starved.
> This occurs due to a bug fix
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1505) that forces processing
> of local read requests before handling any committed write. The problem is
> only manifested under high local read load.
> Our solution solves these two problems. It improves throughput in mixed
> workloads (in our tests, by up to 8x), and reduces latency, especially higher
> percentiles (i.e., slowest requests).
> The main idea is to separate sessions that inherently need to stall in order
> to enforce order semantics, from ones that do not need to stall. To this end,
> we add data structures for buffering and managing pending requests of stalled
> sessions; these requests are moved out of the critical path to these data
> structures, allowing continued processing of unaffected sessions.
> In order to avoid starvation, our solution prioritizes committed write
> requests over reads, and enforces fairness among read requests of sessions.
> Please see the docs:
> 1)
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oXJiSt9VqL35hCYQRmFuC63ETd0F_g6uApzocgkFe3Y/edit?usp=sharing
> - includes a detailed description of the new commit processor algorithm.
> 2) The attached patch implements our solution, and a collection of related
> unit tests (https://reviews.apache.org/r/25160)
> 3)
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vmdfsq4WLr92BQO-CGcualE0KhAtjIu3bCaVwYajLo8/edit?usp=sharing
> - shows performance results of running system tests on the patched ZK using
> the patched system test from
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2023.
> See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1609
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