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+1 on committing what is done already.
epoch sounds like refcounting? Yeah, no hurry deleting the old stuff as long
as it is done eventually. Accounting would be easier if we could move/rename
files under the scanner as long is it does not disrupt (maybe I can try this).
I like your idea of lockless scanning. Would be good to put it up as a goal
even if hard to attain, if only to orientate which way progress lies.
> Major performance improvement: Avoid synchronization in StoreScanner
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>
> Key: HBASE-10015
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10015
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Fix For: 0.98.0, 0.96.1, 0.94.15
>
> Attachments: 10015-0.94-v2.txt, 10015-0.94-v3.txt, 10015-0.94-v4.txt,
> 10015-0.94-withtest.txt, 10015-0.94.txt, 10015-trunk-v2.txt,
> 10015-trunk-v3.txt, 10015-trunk-v4.txt, 10015-trunk-v4.txt,
> 10015-trunk-v4.txt, 10015-trunk.txt, TestLoad.java
>
>
> Did some more profiling (this time with a sampling profiler) and
> StoreScanner.peek() showed up a lot in the samples. At first that was
> surprising, but peek is synchronized, so it seems a lot of the sync'ing cost
> is eaten there.
> It seems the only reason we have to synchronize all these methods is because
> a concurrent flush or compaction can change the scanner stack, other than
> that only a single thread should access a StoreScanner at any given time.
> So replaced updateReaders() with some code that just indicates to the scanner
> that the readers should be updated and then make it the using thread's
> responsibility to do the work.
> The perf improvement from this is staggering. I am seeing somewhere around 3x
> scan performance improvement across all scenarios.
> Now, the hard part is to reason about whether this is 100% correct. I ran
> TestAtomicOperation and TestAcidGuarantees a few times in a loop, all still
> pass.
> Will attach a sample patch.
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