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Yu Li commented on HBASE-16698:
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bq. So no speed up if one region only on a regionserver. Ok. I buy it.
Yes :-)
bq. On what Elliott Clark raises... Your patch looks safe to me though but let
me think on it more....
Sure, let me also revisit the whole logic. But maybe I'm not that worried since
this fix already ran on our production environment for weeks and no problem
observed:-) In theory I think the lock plus ringbuffer's sequential handling
could make sure MVCC and WAL have the same order.
> Performance issue: handlers stuck waiting for CountDownLatch inside
> WALKey#getWriteEntry under high writing workload
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> Key: HBASE-16698
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16698
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Performance
> Affects Versions: 1.1.6, 1.2.3
> Reporter: Yu Li
> Assignee: Yu Li
> Attachments: HBASE-16698.patch, HBASE-16698.v2.patch,
> hadoop0495.et2.jstack
>
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> As titled, on our production environment we observed 98 out of 128 handlers
> get stuck waiting for the CountDownLatch {{seqNumAssignedLatch}} inside
> {{WALKey#getWriteEntry}} under a high writing workload.
> After digging into the problem, we found that the problem is mainly caused by
> advancing mvcc in the append logic. Below is some detailed analysis:
> Under current branch-1 code logic, all batch puts will call
> {{WALKey#getWriteEntry}} after appending edit to WAL, and
> {{seqNumAssignedLatch}} is only released when the relative append call is
> handled by RingBufferEventHandler (see {{FSWALEntry#stampRegionSequenceId}}).
> Because currently we're using a single event handler for the ringbuffer, the
> append calls are handled one by one (actually lot's of our current logic
> depending on this sequential dealing logic), and this becomes a bottleneck
> under high writing workload.
> The worst part is that by default we only use one WAL per RS, so appends on
> all regions are dealt with in sequential, which causes contention among
> different regions...
> To fix this, we could also take use of the "sequential appends" mechanism,
> that we could grab the WriteEntry before publishing append onto ringbuffer
> and use it as sequence id, only that we need to add a lock to make "grab
> WriteEntry" and "append edit" a transaction. This will still cause contention
> inside a region but could avoid contention between different regions. This
> solution is already verified in our online environment and proved to be
> effective.
> Notice that for master (2.0) branch since we already change the write
> pipeline to sync before writing memstore (HBASE-15158), this issue only
> exists for the ASYNC_WAL writes scenario.
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