----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bela Ban"<bban(a)redhat.com> > To: infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:20:31 AM > Subject: [infinispan-dev] DIST, state transfer and cache loaders > > It occurred to me that I'm not sure how state transfer happens in > conjunction with cache loaders, can someone confirm that the > statements > below are correct / incorrect ? > Cheers ! > > - Say we have {A,B,C,D}, all nodes are configured with a disk-based > (local) cache loader > > - Key K is mapped to A and B > > - After some idle time, K is evicted from A and B > > - Now B leaves > > - A state transfer of some keys (mapped to A) happens to B > I imagine B resurrects at some point here?

If not part of the state is transferred to C (and potentially D if

> - As part of the state transfer from A to B, do we iterate through > the > data stored in A's cache loader ? > Â Â (Because if we only iterated through the in-memory data on A, we'd > not transfer K) yes if you have the fetchPersistentState=true.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Bela Ban<bban(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 6/14/12 7:43 PM, Mircea Markus wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Bela Ban"<bban(a)redhat.com> >>> To: infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:20:31 AM >>> Subject: [infinispan-dev] DIST, state transfer and cache loaders >>> >>> It occurred to me that I'm not sure how state transfer happens in >>> conjunction with cache loaders, can someone confirm that the >>> statements >>> below are correct / incorrect ? >>> Cheers ! >>> >>> - Say we have {A,B,C,D}, all nodes are configured with a disk-based >>> (local) cache loader >>> >>> - Key K is mapped to A and B >>> >>> - After some idle time, K is evicted from A and B >>> >>> - Now B leaves >>> >>> - A state transfer of some keys (mapped to A) happens to B >>> >> I imagine B resurrects at some point here? > > > Sorry, I meant a state transfer from A to C ! (B remains dead) > > >> If not part of the state is transferred to C (and potentially D if > virtual nodes are configured). >>> - As part of the state transfer from A to B, do we iterate through >>> the >>> data stored in A's cache loader ? >>> Â Â (Because if we only iterated through the in-memory data on A, we'd >>> not transfer K) >> >> yes if you have the fetchPersistentState=true. > > > Even for mode=DIST ? > > Yes, exactly the same in DIST and in REPL. We first iterate over the data container, and we push all the entries there (for which we are the last old owner) to their new owners. Then we iterate over the cache store, ignoring the entries that are already in the data container, and do the same thing. Cheers Dan _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev