[infinispan-dev] Grouping API (ISPN-312) WAS: Generated keys affected by rehash Was: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-977

Pete Muir pmuir at redhat.com
Tue May 17 18:08:11 EDT 2011


It's worth adding that if you are using any kind of dynamic group (i.e. one that isn't specified statically at compile time) it's up to you to ensure you always return the same group for the same key! I'll add a big fat warning on this one!

On 17 May 2011, at 22:52, Pete Muir wrote:

> Hi Erik
> 
> I've evolved the api a small bit from the JIRA. The group generator now behaves more like an interceptor than described in the jira (you can chain them with the initial value being provided by the annotation).
> 
> No, you don't need to know the group name to access the cache. The group is simply used as a hint to Infinispan.
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 May 2011, at 22:04, Erik Salter wrote:
> 
>> Hi Manik,
>> 
>> I think we are in agreement that playing with hash codes was only a temporary measure.  In my case, having < 200 entries with the same hash code was worth it for knowing that I could handle transactions locally and reap the benefits of increased throughput.   So I can now replace the hash code with @Group.  Cool.
>> 
>> The group generator interface looks interesting, since it closest reflects my situation.  I now have requirements where an immutable key class will need to be saved within the same transaction as the scenario above (obviously, hashing to the same node is a plus)    
>> 
>> One thing isn’t clear from the JIRA.  If I wanted to get Employee “SteveVai” from the cache, do I need to know the group context is “com.ibanez.SteveVai”?  My calling application only knows the key value, not the value with the key context.
>> 
>> Erik
>> 
>> From: infinispan-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:infinispan-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Manik Surtani
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:34 PM
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>> Subject: [infinispan-dev] Grouping API (ISPN-312) WAS: Generated keys affected by rehash Was: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-977
>> 
>> Erik,
>> 
>> Dan is correct that playing with hash codes is not the correct solution.  ISPN-312 is the correct approach.  Pete has been working on a first-cut of this and it should make 5.0.0.CR3.  (Understood that release candidates aren't the place to add new features, but we're adding it as a "preview", just to get feedback on the API and impl.)
>> 
>> Have a look at the proposed API on https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-312 and let us know if it works for you.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Manik
>> 
>> On 13 May 2011, at 18:28, Erik Salter wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Dan,
>> 
>> I don't necessarily care about which server it's on, as long as the keys for my set of caches all remain collocated.  I understand they will all end up in the same bucket, but for one hash code, that's at most 200 keys.  I must acquire a lock for a subset of them during a transaction -- so I make liberal use of the "eagerLockSingleNode" option and redirecting my calling application to execute a transaction on the local node.  Acquiring cluster-wide locks is an absolute throughput killer.
>> 
>> I took a look at the KeyAffinityService a while ago (when it came out) and quickly realized it would not be suitable for my purposes.  I was wondering if ISPN-977 would allow me to use it.  But you're right.  What I ultimately want is ISPN-312.
>> 
>> Erik
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: infinispan-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:infinispan-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Berindei
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:58 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [infinispan-dev] Generated keys affected by rehash Was: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-977
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>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Erik Salter <esalter at bnivideo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, collocation of all keys is a large concern of my application(s).
>> 
>> Currently, I can handle keys I'm in control of (like database-generated keys), where I can play around with the hash code.   What I would love to do is collocate that data with keys I can't control (like UUIDs) so that all cache operations can be done in the same transaction on the data owner's node.
>> 
>> 
>> By playing around with the hash code do you mean you set the hashcode for all the keys you want on a certain server to the same value? I imagine that would degrade performance quite a bit, because we have HashMaps everywhere and your keys will always end up in the same hash bucket.
>> 
>> 
>> ISPN-312 seems to me like a much better fit for your use case than the KeyAffinityService. Even if you added a listener to change your keys when the topology changes, that would mean on a rehash the keys could get moved to the new server and then back to the old server, whereas with ISPN-312 they will either all stay on the old node or they will all move to the new node.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Dan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Erik
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Surtani
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>> Subject: [infinispan-dev] Generated keys affected by rehash Was:
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-977
>> 
>> 
>> On 11 May 2011, at 18:47, Erik Salter wrote:
>> 
>> Wouldn't any rehash affect the locality of these generated keys, or am I missing something?
>> 
>> It would.  And hence ISPN-977, to address that.  Or is your concern keys already generated before the rehash?  The latter would certainly be a problem.  Perhaps, if this was important to the application, on detecting a change in topology, re-generate keys and move data around?  For other apps, move the "session" to the appropriate node?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Manik
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