[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14746?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17212457#comment-17212457
]
Joey Lynch commented on CASSANDRA-14746:
----------------------------------------
Hi [~jmckenzie] thanks for pinging on this!
{quote}Was this the goal of the MS rewrite? I have no horse in this race - I
just thought the goal of it was to tighten up some of the things that were
present / still troublesome after Jason's rewrite of things rather than
specifically targeting performance improvements.
{quote}
I think phrasing it as no regression is also fine. Our testing so far
identified major regressions after both refactors (stability after the first
e.g. not delivering mutations across datacenters and some decent performance
regressions after the second that had to be fixed up).
{quote}And fwiw, the benchmarks I've seen on 4.0 show a pretty significant
improvement in throughput if nothing else, but in terms of bar - no regression
for a rewrite seems like a good low water mark to block on.
{quote}
Some of the issues only surfaced on multi hundred node clusters spanning
multiple datacenters and in various configurations (e.g. TLS on + encryption
off, encryption on + TLS off), I haven't seen very many large scale tests
outside this ticket (most are 6 node clusters with a single datacenter) or that
span uncommon configurations (e.g. which options enabled, disabled, token
setup, etc...). If you know of any results that are public we can certainly
link them to this ticket :) and aggregate all the verification work in one
place!
{quote}> What do you think about this as acceptance criteria for the work here?
{quote}
I think the three identified remaining tests in the sub-tasks are good enough
to call this done from our end, but if there are more test setups from the
public let's get those recorded as well:
1. CASSANDRA-14764 - breaking point comparison with 3.0. This will give us good
signal on regressions from the 3.0 series with a "typical" multi-DC setup
2. CASSANDRA-14747 - 200 node cluster with all options disabled (e.g. if
someone is using VPC and direct connects to peer their VPCs so they don't have
to pay TLS compute costs): This will tell us if we broke the performance of the
non TLS path
3 CASSANDRA-15181 - Can we successfully stream to nodes, how long does that
take, how long does it take with and without TLS on.
[~jmckenzie] For what it's worth these kind of scientific and rigorous tests
are hard to run and expensive (in dollars and engineering time), which is
probably why they don't usually get run before, e.g. 2.1, 3.0 and 3.11 all
failed these kinds of tests resulting in numerous regression bug reports in the
6-12 months after release. Our hope is that we can invest the time and money
ahead of time instead of after the release for 4.0.
> Ensure Netty Internode Messaging Refactor is Solid
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-14746
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14746
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Legacy/Streaming and Messaging
> Reporter: Joey Lynch
> Assignee: Joey Lynch
> Priority: Normal
> Labels: 4.0-QA
> Fix For: 4.0-beta
>
>
> Before we release 4.0 let's ensure that the internode messaging refactor is
> 100% solid. As internode messaging is naturally used in many code paths and
> widely configurable we have a large number of cluster configurations and test
> configurations that must be vetted.
> We plan to vary the following:
> * Version of Cassandra 3.0.17 vs 4.0-alpha
> * Cluster sizes with *multi-dc* deployments ranging from 6 - 100 nodes
> * Client request rates varying between 1k QPS and 100k QPS of varying sizes
> and shapes (BATCH, INSERT, SELECT point, SELECT range, etc ...)
> * Internode compression
> * Internode SSL (as well as openssl vs jdk)
> * Internode Coalescing options
> We are looking to measure the following as appropriate:
> * Latency distributions of reads and writes (lower is better)
> * Scaling limit, aka maximum throughput before violating p99 latency
> deadline of 10ms @ LOCAL_QUORUM, on a fixed hardware deployment for 100%
> writes, 100% reads and 50-50 writes+reads (higher is better)
> * Thread counts (lower is better)
> * Context switches (lower is better)
> * On-CPU time of tasks (higher periods without context switch is better)
> * GC allocation rates / throughput for a fixed size heap (lower allocation
> better)
> * Streaming recovery time for a single node failure, i.e. can Cassandra
> saturate the NIC
>
> The goal is that 4.0 should have better latency, more throughput, fewer
> threads, fewer context switches, less GC allocation, and faster recovery
> time. I'm putting Jason Brown as the reviewer since he implemented most of
> the internode refactor.
> Current collaborators driving this QA task: Dinesh Joshi, Jordan West, Joey
> Lynch (Netflix), Vinay Chella (Netflix)
> Owning committer(s): Jason Brown
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
