I'll take a look at the API and behavior and provide feedback. I'll also
ping our former server guys to see if they can take a look at the
implementation.

Cheers,

~Ryan


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:23 AM, dormando <dorma...@rydia.net> wrote:

> Well I haven't read the lease paper yet. Ryan, can folks more familiar
> with the actual implementation have a look through it maybe?
>
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Zhiwei Chan wrote:
>
> >
> > I m working on a trading system, and getting stale data for the system
> is unaccepted at most of the time. But the high throughput make it
> > impossible to get all data from mysql. So i want to make it more
> reliable when use memcache as a cache. Facebook's paper "Scaling Memcache at
> > Facebook" mentions a method called ‘lease' and 'mcsqueal', but the
> mcsqueal is difficult for my case, because it is hard to get the key for
> mysql.
> >
> > Adding the 'strong cas' feature is devoted to solve the following
> typical problems, client A and Client B want to update the same key, and
> A(set
> > key=>1)update database before B(set key=>2):
> > key not exist in cache: (A get-miss)->(B get-miss)->(B set key=2) -> (A
> set key=1);
> > or key exist in cache: (A delete key)->(B delete key)->(B set key=2) ->
> (A set key=1);
> > Some thing Wrong! the key=2 in database but key=1 in cache.
> >
> > It is possible to happen in a high concurrent system, and i don't find a
> way to solve it with the current cas method. So i add two command 'getss'
> > and 'deletess', they will create a lease and return a cas-unique, or
> tell the client there already exist lease on the server. the client can do
> > something to prevent stale data. such as wait, or invalidate the
> pre-lease.
> > I also think the lease is a concept of 'dirty lock', because anybody try
> to update it will replace itself expiration to the lease's expiration(the
> > lease's expiration time should be very short), so in the worst case(low
> probability), the stale data only exist in cache for a short time. It is
> > accepted for most app in my case.
> >
> > For more detail information, please read doc/strongcas.txt. And hoping
> for u guys suggestion ~_~
> >
> >  i have created a pull request on github.
> > https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/65
> >
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