[jira] [Created] (HBASE-23066) Allow cache on write during compactions when prefetching is enabled

["Jacob LeBlanc (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jacob LeBlanc created HBASE-23066:
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             Summary: Allow cache on write during compactions when prefetching is enabled
                 Key: HBASE-23066
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-23066
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: regionserver
    Affects Versions: 1.4.10
            Reporter: Jacob LeBlanc
             Fix For: 1.4.11
         Attachments: prefetchCompactedBlocksOnWrite.patch

In cases where users care a lot about read performance for tables that are small enough to fit into a cache (or the cache is large enough), prefetchOnOpen can be enabled to make the entire table available in cache after the initial region opening is completed. Any new data can also be guaranteed to be in cache with the cacheBlocksOnWrite setting.

However, the missing piece is when all blocks are evicted after a compaction. We found very poor performance after compactions for tables under heavy read load and a slower backing filesystem (S3). After a compaction the prefetching threads need to compete with threads servicing read requests and get constantly blocked as a result. 

This is a proposal to introduce a new cache configuration option that would cache blocks on write during compaction for any column family that has prefetch enabled. This would virtually guarantee all blocks are kept in cache after the initial prefetch on open is completed allowing for guaranteed steady read performance despite a slow backing file system.



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