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Hiroshi Ikeda commented on HBASE-10656:
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Sorry I just guess it by some trials of my counters with replacing ID and
hashcode, and I don't have practical scale HBase for my tests.
If in actual usages in HBase the performance overhead of ThreadLocal is not so
apparent, I prefer the last counter because of its durability in general
situtations in the current and near future HBase. Even if the measuerd consumed
memory is low, it may still depend on situations and luck (though using the
sequential ID gives more adaptability to restricted situations).
> high-scale-lib's Counter depends on Oracle (Sun) JRE, and also has some bug
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> Key: HBASE-10656
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10656
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Hiroshi Ikeda
> Assignee: Hiroshi Ikeda
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.96.2, 0.98.1, 0.99.0
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> Attachments: 10656-098.v2.txt, 10656-trunk.v2.patch, 10656.096v2.txt,
> HBASE-10656-0.96.patch, HBASE-10656-addition.patch, HBASE-10656-trunk.patch,
> MyCounter.java, MyCounter2.java, MyCounter3.java, MyCounterTest.java,
> MyCounterTest.java, PerformanceTestApp.java, PerformanceTestApp2.java,
> output.pdf, output.txt, output2.pdf, output2.txt
>
>
> Cliff's high-scale-lib's Counter is used in important classes (for example,
> HRegion) in HBase, but Counter uses sun.misc.Unsafe, that is implementation
> detail of the Java standard library and belongs to Oracle (Sun). That
> consequently makes HBase depend on the specific JRE Implementation.
> To make matters worse, Counter has a bug and you may get wrong result if you
> mix a reading method into your logic calling writing methods.
> In more detail, I think the bug is caused by reading an internal array field
> without resolving memory caching, which is intentional the comment says, but
> storing the read result into a volatile field. That field may be not changed
> after you can see the true values of the array field, and also may be not
> changed after updating the "next" CAT instance's values in some race
> condition when extending CAT instance chain.
> Anyway, it is possible that you create a new alternative class which only
> depends on the standard library. I know Java8 provides its alternative, but
> HBase should support Java6 and Java7 for some time.
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