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So you are thinking this cannot be completed until after we add delayed clean
up of no-longer-used files? Only then can we safely remove synchronizations?
How many threads we talking anyways? It should be uncontended. The only
thread is the current handler asking to return scan results -- this changes as
different handlers come in on each bulk next invocation -- and then an
incidental update readers request..and that is it?
> Major performance improvement: Avoid synchronization in StoreScanner
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-10015
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10015
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Attachments: 10015-0.94-v2.txt, 10015-0.94-v3.txt, 10015-0.94-v4.txt,
> 10015-0.94-withtest.txt, 10015-0.94.txt, 10015-trunk-v2.txt,
> 10015-trunk-v3.txt, 10015-trunk-v4.txt, 10015-trunk-v4.txt,
> 10015-trunk-v4.txt, 10015-trunk.txt, TestLoad.java
>
>
> Did some more profiling (this time with a sampling profiler) and
> StoreScanner.peek() showed up a lot in the samples. At first that was
> surprising, but peek is synchronized, so it seems a lot of the sync'ing cost
> is eaten there.
> It seems the only reason we have to synchronize all these methods is because
> a concurrent flush or compaction can change the scanner stack, other than
> that only a single thread should access a StoreScanner at any given time.
> So replaced updateReaders() with some code that just indicates to the scanner
> that the readers should be updated and then make it the using thread's
> responsibility to do the work.
> The perf improvement from this is staggering. I am seeing somewhere around 3x
> scan performance improvement across all scenarios.
> Now, the hard part is to reason about whether this is 100% correct. I ran
> TestAtomicOperation and TestAcidGuarantees a few times in a loop, all still
> pass.
> Will attach a sample patch.
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