[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-4039) try out a proactor design pattern for tserver services

["Adam Fuchs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Adam Fuchs created ACCUMULO-4039:
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             Summary: try out a proactor design pattern for tserver services
                 Key: ACCUMULO-4039
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4039
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: tserver
            Reporter: Adam Fuchs
            Priority: Minor


For large instances (i.e. lots of clients for a given tserver) we create oodles of threads on the tserver. This makes for difficulty in predicting performance, memory usage, etc. Moreover, we have operations that recurse, like a server querying itself, that we currently solve by having separate thread pools for regular table operations and metadata table operations, and we "disallow" things like an iterator writing to another table. One alternative option would be to switch to a Proactor pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactor_pattern

The core of this would be to switch to using a selection set rather than a thread per active connection, and then wrap everything in sessions that make progress in something like a state model, with states that account for asynchronous communications and remote work.




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