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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-615:
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1.1 Good catch
2.1 My desire is to ensure that checkpoints are flushed prior to taking new
writes.
3.1 TestLogPerformance is deleted in this patch. Previously TestLogPerformance
tested the log and LinearWriteTest tested writing to files. But as I did the
latency testing LinearWriteTest got better and better. Finally I just added the
log testing into that tool. I deleted it as part of this patch because it was a
subset of the functionality in LinearWriteTest.
3.2 In all our tests we test with the filesystem, mount options, and
configuration you have. I think trying to control OS-specific thing from the
tool is overkill.
> Avoid fsync on log segment roll
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>
> Key: KAFKA-615
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-615
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Jay Kreps
> Assignee: Neha Narkhede
> Attachments: KAFKA-615-v1.patch, KAFKA-615-v2.patch,
> KAFKA-615-v3.patch, KAFKA-615-v4.patch, KAFKA-615-v5.patch, KAFKA-615-v6.patch
>
>
> It still isn't feasible to run without an application level fsync policy.
> This is a problem as fsync locks the file and tuning such a policy so that
> the flushes aren't so frequent that seeks reduce throughput, yet not so
> infrequent that the fsync is writing so much data that there is a noticable
> jump in latency is very challenging.
> The remaining problem is the way that log recovery works. Our current policy
> is that if a clean shutdown occurs we do no recovery. If an unclean shutdown
> occurs we recovery the last segment of all logs. To make this correct we need
> to ensure that each segment is fsync'd before we create a new segment. Hence
> the fsync during roll.
> Obviously if the fsync during roll is the only time fsync occurs then it will
> potentially write out the entire segment which for a 1GB segment at 50mb/sec
> might take many seconds. The goal of this JIRA is to eliminate this and make
> it possible to run with no application-level fsyncs at all, depending
> entirely on replication and background writeback for durability.
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