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Duo Zhang commented on HBASE-13082:
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On flush, what if we let all Scans complete before letting go the snapshot?
More memory pressure. Simpler implementation.
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How much time a {{RegionScanner}} can continue sometimes depends on the user of
HBase. Think of a {{Filter}} that matches nothing. A {{RegionScanner}} could
scan the whole region if that {{Filter}} is applied. So I do not think having a
ref count on snapshot is a good idea.
So I think resetting heap is necessary when there is a flush, and the problem
is how to do it without a expensive overhead? Maybe something like a Biased
Locking?
Thanks.
> Coarsen StoreScanner locks to RegionScanner
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>
> Key: HBASE-13082
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13082
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
> Attachments: 13082-test.txt, 13082-v2.txt, 13082-v3.txt,
> 13082-v4.txt, 13082.txt, 13082.txt, HBASE-13082.pdf, HBASE-13082_1_WIP.patch,
> HBASE-13082_2_WIP.patch, HBASE-13082_3.patch, HBASE-13082_4.patch, gc.png,
> gc.png, gc.png, hits.png, next.png, next.png
>
>
> Continuing where HBASE-10015 left of.
> We can avoid locking (and memory fencing) inside StoreScanner by deferring to
> the lock already held by the RegionScanner.
> In tests this shows quite a scan improvement and reduced CPU (the fences make
> the cores wait for memory fetches).
> There are some drawbacks too:
> * All calls to RegionScanner need to be remain synchronized
> * Implementors of coprocessors need to be diligent in following the locking
> contract. For example Phoenix does not lock RegionScanner.nextRaw() and
> required in the documentation (not picking on Phoenix, this one is my fault
> as I told them it's OK)
> * possible starving of flushes and compaction with heavy read load.
> RegionScanner operations would keep getting the locks and the
> flushes/compactions would not be able finalize the set of files.
> I'll have a patch soon.
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