[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-7045) Investigate changes to threading model for network consumers to improve performance for small messages

["Jason Brown (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-7045:
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I started an investigation into something like the quasar project (http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/), where you are doing something like like golang's goroutines / erlang's process. Basically, lightweight event processing not occupying a full thread. While I thought bringing in the whole quasar project was more than what we would want, I thought the basic ideas (scheduler + lightweight routines) would be a great thing to look at.


> Investigate changes to threading model for network consumers to improve performance for small messages
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-7045
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7045
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Assignee: Benedict
>              Labels: performance
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> See CASSANDRA-7029 for original discussion.
> We can (maybe) optimise the threading model for network consumers: since we generally process very small messages (200 bytes not at all implausible), the thread signalling costs on the processing thread can actually dramatically impede throughput. In general it costs ~10micros to signal (and passing the message to another thread for processing in the current model requires signalling). For 200-byte messages this caps our throughput at 20MB/s.



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