[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6106) QueryState.getTimestamp() & FBUtilities.timestampMicros() reads current timestamp with System.currentTimeMillis() * 1000 instead of System.nanoTime() / 1000

["Christopher Smith (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Smith commented on CASSANDRA-6106:
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If we really care about performance for getting the time, on linux we should just create an NIO buffer around the real-time timer and avoid calling out to C to get the time completely.

> QueryState.getTimestamp() & FBUtilities.timestampMicros() reads current timestamp with System.currentTimeMillis() * 1000 instead of System.nanoTime() / 1000
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6106
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6106
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: DSE Cassandra 3.1, but also HEAD
>            Reporter: Christopher Smith
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: timestamps
>             Fix For: 2.1
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>         Attachments: microtimstamp.patch, microtimstamp_random.patch, microtimstamp_random_rev2.patch
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> I noticed this blog post: http://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra mentioned issues with millisecond rounding in timestamps and was able to reproduce the issue. If I specify a timestamp in a mutating query, I get microsecond precision, but if I don't, I get timestamps rounded to the nearest millisecond, at least for my first query on a given connection, which substantially increases the possibilities of collision.
> I believe I found the offending code, though I am by no means sure this is comprehensive. I think we probably need a fairly comprehensive replacement of all uses of System.currentTimeMillis() with System.nanoTime().



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