Hi, I thought I'd offer an idea that struck me this morning regarding buddy 
backup. Consider the following start of a tree:
/root/
  |     /A
  |     /B
  |     /C
In our scenario, changes on nodes A-C (including optional sub-trees) may be 
performed concurrently per node but the system guarantees that even though one 
thread may change A while another changes B no two threads will ever try to 
access the same node at the same time. 

However, given a number of "node executing" threads for concurrency, buddy 
replication becomes somewhat of a bottle neck as A-C will all be backed up on 
the same remote node. For example, using TCP/UNICAST in the configuration will 
force all threads involved to lock on to the same monitors during replication 
as all backups are located on the same remove instance. 

This led me to suspect that perhaps, and this is where you can tell me why I'm 
dead wrong of course, that some sort of "region based buddy backup" would yield 
a drastically improved performance for this kind of scenarios, as it would 
enable concurrent transport for all three nodes. In other words, given remote 
nodes N1, N2, and N3 and you could configure the cache as follows...
/root/A (with subtree) - to be buddy backed up at N1  
  | /root/B (with subtree) - to be buddy backed up at N2
  | /root/C (with subtree) - to be buddy backed up at N3
... thread T1 could concurrently access and replicate A without interfering 
with thread T2 which is accessing B as 1) they're on different sub-trees in the 
cache (thus in-VM locking shouldn't be a problem); and 2) replication can be 
done concurrently (FIFO ordering etc).

Am I making any sense here?

Cheers
/Lars J. Nilsson
www.cubeia.com

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