Re: [infinispan-dev] Distributed hashing - heterogenous nodes

Are you referring to a third strategy? I don't understand how do you assign these tokens to partitions? Any way you want?

On 5/26/09 3:23 PM, Manik Surtani wrote: > This is based on a question that came up when discussing Infinispan > with the Red Hat MRG group. My current design treats nodes as > equal, and as such would get an equal number of keys mapped to the > node. > > This is not always desirable, since nodes aren't always equal. > Nodes could be weighted. Inspired by Amazon's Dynamo paper [1], > I'm considering providing an alternate ConsistentHash > implementation that supports weights, with the use of "virtual > nodes", or "tokens". > > I suppose the purpose of this email is, do we need a "simplistic" > CH implementation like the one I have right now, anymore? Should > we not just ship a weighted CH, with the default weight being equal? > > Cheers > Manik > > [1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html > > -- > Manik Surtani > manik(a)jboss.org > Lead, Infinispan > Lead, JBoss Cache > http://www.infinispan.org > http://www.jbosscache.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev