ISPN-1786 is related to a potential bug in the config parser that didn't pick 
up numVirtualNodes settings.  As well as a proposal for a different default 
value for numVirtualNodes - which really should be a separate JIRA.

On 27 Jan 2012, at 07:03, Bela Ban wrote:

> Regarding ISPN-1786, I'd like to work with Sanne/Mircea on trying out 
> the new UNICAST2. In my local tests, I got a 15% speedup, but this is 
> JGroups only, so I'm not sure how big the impact would be on Infinispan.
> 
> If we see a big speedup, UNICAST2 and NAKACK2 could then be backported 
> to a 3.0.4, and added to 5.1.1.
> 
> However, I want to spend some time on testing UNICAST2, so this won't be 
> available tomorrow...
> 
> 
> On 1/26/12 11:42 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> I really didn't want to do this, but it looks like a 5.1.1 will be 
>> necessary.  The biggest (critical, IMO, for 5.1.1) issues I see are:
>> 
>> 1. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1786 - I presume this has to do with 
>> a bug Mircea spotted that virtual nodes were not being enabled by the config 
>> parser.  Which meant that even in the case of tests enabling virtual nodes, 
>> we still saw uneven distribution and hence poor performance (well spotted, 
>> Mircea).
>> 2. Related to 1, I don't think there is a JIRA for this yet, to change the 
>> default number of virtual nodes from 1 to 100 or so.  After we profile and 
>> analyse the impact of enabling this by default.  I'm particularly concerned 
>> about (a) memory footprint and (b) effects on Hot Rod relaying topology 
>> information back to clients.  Maybe 10 is a more sane default as a result.
>> 3. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1788 - config parser out of sync 
>> with XSD!
>> 4. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1798 - forceReturnValues parameter 
>> in the RemoteCacheManager.getCache() method is ignored!
>> 
>> In addition, we may as well have these "nice to have's" in as well:
>> 
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1787
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1793
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1795
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1789
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1784
>> 
>> What do you think?  Anything else you feel that is crucial for a 5.1.1?  I'd 
>> like to do this sooner rather than later, so we can still focus on 5.2.0.  
>> So please respond asap.
>> 
>> Paul, I'd also like your thoughts on this from an AS7 perspective.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Manik
>> 
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