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graham sanderson commented on CASSANDRA-7546:
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I do wonder how much of a problem this is in 2.1, though. I wonder if the
largest problem with these racy modifications isn't actually the massive
amounts of memtable arena allocations they incur in 2.0 with all their
transformation.apply() calls (which reallocate the mutation on the arena),
which is most likely what causes the promotion failures, as they cannot be
collected. I wonder if we shouldn't simply backport the logic to only allocate
these once, or at most twice (the first time we race). It seems much more
likely to me that this is where the pain is being felt.
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I'm not sure which changes you are talking about back-porting and whether the
"at most twice" refers to looping once then locking. Certainly avoiding any
repeated cloning of the cells is good, however I'm still pretty sure based on
PrintFLSStatistics that the slabs themselves are not the biggest problem (I
suspect SnapTreeMap nodes, combined with high rebalancing cost of huge trees in
the hint case since the keys are almost entirely sorted).
Are you suggesting a one way switch per Atomic*Columns instance that flips
after a number waster "operations"? That sounds reasonable... I'd expect that a
partition for a table is either likely to have high contention or not based on
the schema design/use case. I have no idea how long these instances hang around
in practice (presumably not insanely long)
> AtomicSortedColumns.addAllWithSizeDelta has a spin loop that allocates memory
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7546
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7546
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: graham sanderson
> Assignee: graham sanderson
> Attachments: 7546.20.txt, 7546.20_2.txt, 7546.20_alt.txt,
> suggestion1.txt, suggestion1_21.txt
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> In order to preserve atomicity, this code attempts to read, clone/update,
> then CAS the state of the partition.
> Under heavy contention for updating a single partition this can cause some
> fairly staggering memory growth (the more cores on your machine the worst it
> gets).
> Whilst many usage patterns don't do highly concurrent updates to the same
> partition, hinting today, does, and in this case wild (order(s) of magnitude
> more than expected) memory allocation rates can be seen (especially when the
> updates being hinted are small updates to different partitions which can
> happen very fast on their own) - see CASSANDRA-7545
> It would be best to eliminate/reduce/limit the spinning memory allocation
> whilst not slowing down the very common un-contended case.
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