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runzhiwang commented on RATIS-1176:
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bq. I suspect it is better than transferTo(..) since it is using
transferToArbitraryChannel(..).
I agree. I think ratis streaming is faster than transferToArbitraryChannel,
maybe slower than transferToTrustedChannel and transferToDirectly. Because
when primary receive data in ratis streaming, it need a DirectByteBuffer in
netty to store data, so it still need to read data by flow: socket -> kernel
space -> user space, and when primary send data to peer, the flow is: user
space -> kernel space -> socket, so I think ratis streaming is slower than
transferToTrustedChannel which did not need copy between user space and kernel
space, but not sure.
bq. We may pass MapByteBuffer to our writeAsync(..) method
I agree.
> Benchmark various ways to stream data
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>
> Key: RATIS-1176
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RATIS-1176
> Project: Ratis
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: client, Streaming
> Reporter: Tsz-wo Sze
> Priority: Major
>
> In RATIS-1175, we provided a WritableByteChannel view of DataStreamOutput in
> order to support FileChannel.transferTo. However, [~runzhiwang] pointed out
> that sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.transferTo has three submethods
> - transferToDirectly (fastest)
> - transferToTrustedChannel
> - transferToArbitraryChannel (slowest, requires buffer copying)
> Unfortunately, our current implementation only able to use
> transferToArbitraryChannel.
> There are several ideas below to improve the performance. We should
> benchmark them.
> # Improve the current implementation of WritableByteChannel so that it may be
> able to use a faster transferTo method.
> # Use
> [FileChannel.map(..)|https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#map-java.nio.channels.FileChannel.MapMode-long-long-]
> and pass MappedByteBuffer to our DataStreamOutput.writeAsync method.
> # Add a new API
> {code}
> //DataStreamOutput
> CompletableFuture<DataStreamReply> writeAsync(File);
> {code}
> Internally, use Netty DefaultFileRegion for zero-copy file transfer:
> https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.1/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/file/FileServerHandler.java#L53
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