Hi Galder,

Some notes/questions:

- each listener will be identified on the server through a "source 
id"/"listener id" combo? the "source id" must be unique through all the 
clients, and "source id" unique through all the listeners of the same client?
"It assumes that clients are able to maintain persistent connections to the 
servers"
- does that mean that each listener node would have to keep an active 
connection to all the existing hotrod servers? ATM the client shrinks the 
connection pool in the case some connections are not used, that should be 
disabled if we go this way. Also is this approach scalable? In the case of 
large number of clients (c) and servers (s), you'd end up with a mesh of c*s 
active connections between clients and servers.
- how does a server send the event to the client? piggybacks on other operation 
(ping, put...) ? E.g. if client A is interested in create events, and a key is 
created on node X, X doesn't seem to have any mean  to initiate the sending of 
events to A
- I imagine that the listener information is going to be kept across the 
cluster and not only on the server node where the add listener request arrived. 
If so, how is this going to be achieved? What about housekeeping for the 
crashed clients?
- the notifications will only be triggered by a single server nodes so that the 
client wont't receive numOwners notifications for an entry created, right?
- isn't optional requirement 1 achievable through the source id/listener id 
combo?

Cheers,
Mircea

On 20 Feb 2012, at 14:29, Galder Zamarreño wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Re: https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17571
> 
> Over the past week and a bit I've been working on a rough prototype for 
> remote event handling in Hot Rod that covers the server side (I've not done 
> any work on the Hot Rod client).In the link above you can find my design 
> notes. 
> 
> I wanted to get some feedback on the minimum requirements explained and I 
> wanted to discuss the need of the optional requirements, in particular the 
> 1st of the optional requirements.
> 
> The idea is that at a logical level, it'd be interesting to know what the 
> origin of a modification for a couple of reasons:
> 
> - It allows clients be able to know whether the modification is originated 
> locally from a logical point of view. If it sounds to abstract, think about 
> near caches (see preso in 
> https://www.jboss.org/dms/judcon/presentations/London2011/day1track2session2.pdf)
>  and imagine a local cache (near cache) configured with a remote cache store 
> (a Java hot rod client with N channels open at the same time). Remote 
> listeners could decide to act differently if the modification was originated 
> locally or not, i.e. if it's not local then remove the key from cache, if 
> local, it means the modification comes from this remote cache store and so I 
> have the latest data in memory. This is a very nice optimisation for at least 
> this use case.
> 
> - This can be extended further. If all channels opened with can be associated 
> with a logical origin, we could optimise sending back events. For example, 
> imagine a remote cache store (it has 1 remote cache manager) that has N 
> channels open with the server. There's no need for all N channels to receive 
> a notification for a cache removal. As long as one of the channels gets it 
> event, it's good enough to act to on the local cache.
> 
> As you can see, what I'm heading towards is that for each remote cache 
> manager started to be id'd uniquely, and this id to be shipped with all Hot 
> Rod operations. It could be possible to limit the operations that carry such 
> an id, but this could complicate the protocol.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Also, any thoughts on the need for the 4th optional requirement? For near 
> caches, remote events are important, but you could limit the need for it with 
> an aggressive eviction policy in the near cache to cover against lost events.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Galder Zamarreño
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
> 
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