[infinispan-dev] New bundler performance

[Bela Ban]

On 06/12/2013 10:57 AM, Mircea Markus wrote:

>> I think we should treat this as a bug and I'll look into this, but I
>> won't have much time until after JBW. If you want to write code that can
>> handle both old and new bundler, that would be good, although that code
>> should be removed after the bug has been fixed.
> The only thing I'm aware of that's needed to support old bundling is to add DONT_BUNDLE to sync messages, which seems pretty straight forward.
> I remember discussing that DONT_BUNDLE + sync messages + new bundler is suboptimal for some reason (batching?) - am I wrong saying that?


This will generate more messages than necessary if multiple threads are 
invoking sync RPCs, but other than that it should be ok. The main 
advantage of the new bundler is that we can remove the need for DONT_BUNDLE.


> We're currently holding the 5.3.0.CR2 release for this. I'm thinking to:
> - support old bundling as well
> - based on the when the jgroups perf problem is fixed we might release CR3 or include the fix in 5.3.1.Final

OK, sounds good

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss