[infinispan-dev] Experiment: Affinity Tagging

Adrian Nistor anistor at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 09:33:36 EST 2015 

None of the existing Hash implementations can, but this new one will be 
special. It could have access to the config (and CH) of the user's cache 
so it will know the number of segments. The index cache will have to use 
the same type of CH as the data cache in order to keep ownership in sync 
and the Hash implementation will be the special delegating Hash.

There is a twist though, the above only works with SyncConsistentHash. 
Bacause when two caches with identical topology use 
DefaultConsistentHash they could still not be in sync in terms of key 
ownership. Only SyncConsistentHash ensures that.

Knowledge of how CH currently maps hashcodes to segments is assumed 
already. I've spotted at least 3 places in code where it happens, so it 
is time to document it or move this responsibility to the Hash interface 
as you suggest to make it really pluggable.

Adrian

On 01/20/2015 03:32 PM, Dan Berindei wrote:
> Adrian, I don't think that will work. The Hash doesn't know the number 
> of segments so it can't tell where a particular key will land - even 
> assuming knowledge about how the ConsistentHash will map hash codes to 
> segments.
>
> However, I'm all for replacing the current Hash interface with another 
> interface that maps keys directly to segments.
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Adrian Nistor <anistor at redhat.com 
> <mailto:anistor at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sanne,
>
>     An alternative approach would be to implement an
>     org.infinispan.commons.hash.Hash which delegates to the stock
>     implementation for all keys except those that need to be assigned to a
>     specific segment. It should return the desired segment for those.
>
>     Adrian
>
>
>     On 01/20/2015 02:48 AM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I'm playing with an idea for some internal components to be able to
>     > "tag" the key for an entry to be stored into Infinispan in a very
>     > specific segment of the CH.
>     >
>     > Conceptually the plan is easy to understand by looking at this
>     patch:
>     >
>     >
>     https://github.com/Sanne/infinispan/commit/45a3d9e62318d5f5f950a60b5bb174d23037335f
>     >
>     > Hacking the change into ReplicatedConsistentHash is quite barbaric,
>     > please bear with me as I couldn't figure a better way to be able to
>     > experiment with this. I'll probably want to extend this class, but
>     > then I'm not sure how to plug it in?
>
>
> You would need to create your own ConsistentHashFactory, possibly 
> extending ReplicatedConsistentHashFactory. You can then plug the 
> factory in with
>
> configurationBuilder.clustering().hash().consistentHashFactory(yourFactory)
>
> However, this isn't a really good idea, because then you need a 
> different implementation for distributed mode, and then another 
> implementation for topology-aware clusters (with rack/machine/site 
> ids). And your users would also need to select the proper factory for 
> each cache.
>
>     >
>     > What would you all think of such a "tagging" mechanism?
>     >
>     > # Why I didn't use the KeyAffinityService
>     > - I need to use my own keys, not the meaningless stuff produced
>     by the service
>     > - the extensive usage of Random in there doesn't seem suited for a
>     > performance critical path
>
>
> You can plug in your own KeyGenerator to generate keys, and maybe 
> replace the Random with a static/thread-local counter.
>
>     >
>     > # Why I didn't use the Grouping API
>     > - I need to pick the specific storage segment, not just
>     co-locate with
>     > a different key
>     >
>
>
> This is actually a drawback of the KeyAffinityService more than 
> Grouping. With grouping, you can actually follow the 
> KeyAffinityService strategy and generate random strings until you get 
> one in the proper segment, and then tag all your keys with that exact 
> string.
>
>     >
>     > The general goal is to make it possible to "tag" all entries of an
>     > index, and have an independent index for each segment of the CH. So
>     > the resulting effect would be, that when a primary owner for any
>     key K
>     > is making an update, and this triggers an index update, that
>     update is
>     >   A) going to happen on the same node -> no need to forwarding to a
>     > "master indexing node"
>     >   B) each such writes on the index happen on the same node which is
>     > primary owner for all the written entries of the index.
>     >
>     > There are two additional nice consequences:
>     >   - there would be no need to perform a reliable "master election":
>     > ownership singleton is already guaranteed by Infinispan's essential
>     > logic, so it would reuse that
>     >   - the propagation of writes on the index from the primary owner
>     > (which is the local node by definition) to backup owners could use
>     > REPL_ASYNC for most practical use cases.
>     >
>     > So net result is that the overhead for indexing is reduced to 0
>     (ZERO)
>     > blocking RPCs if the async repl is acceptable, or to only one
>     blocking
>     > roundtrip if very strict consistency is required.
>
>
> Sounds very interesting, but I think there may be a problem with your 
> strategy: Infinispan doesn't guarantee you that one of the nodes 
> executing the CommitCommand is the primary owner at the time the 
> CommitCommand is executed. You could have something like this:
>
> Cluster [A, B, C, D], key k, owners(k) = [A, B] (A is primary)
> C initiates a tx that executes put(k, v)
> Tx prepare succeeds on A and B
> A crashes, but the other nodes don't detect the crash yet
> Tx commit succeeds on B, who still thinks is a backup owner
> B detects the crash, installs a new cluster view consistent hash with 
> owners(k) = [B]
>
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Sanne
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