wsry opened a new pull request #9710: [FLINK-11859][runtime]Improve SpanningRecordSerializer performance by serializing record length to data buffer directly. URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/9710 ## What is the purpose of the change The purpose of this pr is to improve the performance of SpanningRecordSerializer. Currently, the data and length filed of a serialized record are stored separately in two buffer (the lengthBuffer and the serializationBuffer), thus need two times of copy when transferring the intermediate data to BufferBuilder. This pr tries to optimize the serialization process by removing the lengthBuffer and write the length field to serializationBuffer directly, which can avoid the copy of length buffer. ## Brief change log - *Remove the length buffer of SpanningRecordSerializer and serialize the record length to data buffer directly. More specifically, the initial 4 bytes of the data buffer is reserved for length field and after the the serialization of record, the reserved space will be filled with record length.* ## Verifying this change - This change is already covered by existing tests, such as *SpanningRecordSerializerTest* and *SpanningRecordSerializationTest*. - The performance gain is proved by the micro-benchmark and the whole results can be found in this jira [FLINK-11859](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11859). ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (yes / **no**) - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: (yes / **no**) - The serializers: (**yes** / no / don't know) - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (**yes** / no / don't know) - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (yes / **no** / don't know) - The S3 file system connector: (yes / **no** / don't know) ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (yes / **no**) - If yes, how is the feature documented? (**not applicable** / docs / JavaDocs / not documented)
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