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Benedict commented on CASSANDRA-7032:
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I've pushed some minor suggestions
[here|https://github.com/belliottsmith/cassandra/tree/7032-suggestions]
I think the integration / mechanism for employing this functionality could be
improved, but that can be delayed to a follow up ticket.
Before that, though, AFAICT the token ranges we're optimising for in this
ticket are not those the cluster actually runs on. They _start_ at the token
assigned to each endpoint, instead of _end_
Other than that it LGTM.
> Improve vnode allocation
> ------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-7032
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7032
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Benedict
> Assignee: Branimir Lambov
> Labels: performance, vnodes
> Fix For: 3.x
>
> Attachments: TestVNodeAllocation.java, TestVNodeAllocation.java,
> TestVNodeAllocation.java, TestVNodeAllocation.java, TestVNodeAllocation.java,
> TestVNodeAllocation.java
>
>
> It's been known for a little while that random vnode allocation causes
> hotspots of ownership. It should be possible to improve dramatically on this
> with deterministic allocation. I have quickly thrown together a simple greedy
> algorithm that allocates vnodes efficiently, and will repair hotspots in a
> randomly allocated cluster gradually as more nodes are added, and also
> ensures that token ranges are fairly evenly spread between nodes (somewhat
> tunably so). The allocation still permits slight discrepancies in ownership,
> but it is bound by the inverse of the size of the cluster (as opposed to
> random allocation, which strangely gets worse as the cluster size increases).
> I'm sure there is a decent dynamic programming solution to this that would be
> even better.
> If on joining the ring a new node were to CAS a shared table where a
> canonical allocation of token ranges lives after running this (or a similar)
> algorithm, we could then get guaranteed bounds on the ownership distribution
> in a cluster. This will also help for CASSANDRA-6696.
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