[jira] [Resolved] (HBASE-5263) Preserving cached data on compactions through cache-on-write

["Andrew Kyle Purtell (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andrew Kyle Purtell resolved HBASE-5263.
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      Assignee:     (was: Rishit Shroff)
    Resolution: Abandoned

> Preserving cached data on compactions through cache-on-write
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>                 Key: HBASE-5263
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5263
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: BlockCache, Compaction, Performance
>            Reporter: Mikhail Gryzykhin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> We are tackling HBASE-3976 and HBASE-5230 to make sure we don't trash the block cache on compactions if cache-on-write is enabled. However, it would be ideal to reduce the effect compactions have on the cached data. For every block we are writing for a compacted file we can decide whether it needs to be cached based on whether the original blocks containing the same data were already in cache. More precisely, for every HFile reader in a compaction we can maintain a boolean flag saying whether the current key-value came from a disk IO or the block cache. In the HFile writer for the compaction's output we can maintain a flag that is set if any of the key-values in the block being written came from a cached block, use that flag at the end of a block to decide whether to cache-on-write the block, and reset the flag to false on a block boundary. If such an inclusive approach would still trash the cache, we could restrict the total number of blocks to be cached per an output HFile, switch to an "and" logic instead of "or" logic for deciding whether to cache an output file block, or only cache a certain percentage of output file blocks that contain some of the previously cached data. 
> Thanks to Nicolas for this elegant online algorithm idea!



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