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Sam Lightfoot edited comment on CASSANDRA-21134 at 2/13/26 8:39 PM:
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Preliminary test results for unthrottled cursor compaction with direct IO for 
compaction writes:
 * Memory: 12GB
 * Max Heap: 6GB
 * Hot dataset size: 1GB
 * Compaction reads: buffered

 

_Read Latency During Compaction_
|Percentile|Buffered #1 (ms)|Buffered #2 (ms)|Direct IO #1 (ms)|Direct IO #2 
(ms)|
|—|—|—|—|—|
|p50|0.48|0.48|0.48|0.48|
|p90|1.36|1.34|0.98|0.97|
|p99|16.52|15.79|1.94|1.87|
|p99.9|141.6|59.5|8.19|7.60|
|p99.99|190.8|96.5|27.5|23.3|
|Mean|1.41|1.16|0.61|0.61|
|StdDev|7.74|3.94|0.67|0.61|
|Max|285.2|160.4|86.5|80.7|
|Total reads|5,730,193|5,730,138|5,730,235|5,730,288|

 

_Summary_
|Metric|Buffered (avg)|Direct IO (avg)|Improvement|Notes|
|—|—|—|—|—|
|*p99 read latency*|16.2 ms|1.9 ms|*8.5x*| |
|*p99.9 read latency*|100.6 ms|7.9 ms|*12.7x*| |
|*Mean read latency*|1.29 ms|0.61 ms|*2.1x*| |
|*Stall_us/s*|31,599|21,534|*-32%*|Time app blocks waiting for kernel page 
reclaim|
|*Active_File*|471 MB|488 MB|+4%|Page cache pages actively referenced by reads|
|*Compaction throughput*|246 MiB/s|286 MiB/s|*+16%*| |
|p50 read latency|0.48 ms|0.48 ms|—| |
|Cache Hit Ratio|16.1%|17.6%|+1.5%|Similar — compaction reads dominate misses|
|*Cache Dirty Writes*|42,862|1,038|*-97.6%* |Page cache dirty writes/s|

 


was (Author: JIRAUSER302824):
Preliminary test results for unthrottled cursor compaction with direct IO for 
compaction writes:
 * Memory: 12GB
 * Max Heap: 6GB
 * Hot dataset size: 1GB
 * Compaction reads: buffered

 

_Read Latency During Compaction_
|Percentile|Buffered #1 (ms)|Buffered #2 (ms)|Direct IO #1 (ms)|Direct IO #2 
(ms)|
|—|—|—|—|—|
|p50|0.48|0.48|0.48|0.48|
|p90|1.36|1.34|0.98|0.97|
|p99|16.52|15.79|1.94|1.87|
|p99.9|141.6|59.5|8.19|7.60|
|p99.99|190.8|96.5|27.5|23.3|
|Mean|1.41|1.16|0.61|0.61|
|StdDev|7.74|3.94|0.67|0.61|
|Max|285.2|160.4|86.5|80.7|
|Total reads|5,730,193|5,730,138|5,730,235|5,730,288|

 

_Summary_
|Metric|Buffered (avg)|Direct IO (avg)|Improvement|Notes|
|—|—|—|—|—|
|*p99 read latency*|16.2 ms|1.9 ms|*8.5x*| |
|*p99.9 read latency*|100.6 ms|7.9 ms|*12.7x*| |
|*Mean read latency*|1.29 ms|0.61 ms|*2.1x*| |
|*Stall_us/s*|31,599|21,534|*-32%*|Time app blocks waiting for kernel page 
reclaim|
|*Active_File*|471 MB|488 MB|+4%|Page cache pages actively referenced by reads|
|*Compaction throughput*|246 MiB/s|286 MiB/s|*+16%*| |
|p50 read latency|0.48 ms|0.48 ms|—| |
|Cache Hit Ratio|16.1%|17.6%|+9%|Similar — compaction reads dominate misses|
|*Cache Dirty Writes*|42,862|1,038|*-97.6%* |Page cache dirty writes/s|

 

> Direct IO support for compaction writes
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-21134
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21134
>             Project: Apache Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Local/Compaction
>            Reporter: Sam Lightfoot
>            Assignee: Sam Lightfoot
>            Priority: Normal
>             Fix For: 5.x
>
>         Attachments: image-2026-02-11-17-22-58-361.png, 
> image-2026-02-11-17-25-58-329.png
>
>
> Follow-up from the implementation for compaction reads (CASSANDRA-19987)
> Notable points
>  * Update the start-up check that impacts DIO writes 
> ({_}checkKernelBug1057843{_})
>  * RocksDB uses 1 MB flush buffer. This should be configurable and 
> performance tested (256KB vs 1MB)
>  * Introduce compaction_write_disk_access_mode
>  * Support for the compressed path would be most beneficial



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