[infinispan-dev] Improving the performance of index writers

Hi all, we have been breaking down the problem of latency during Index Writing into smaller manageable tasks, you can find the general overview JIRA here : - https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-4847 As you can see some minor improvements have been fixed already, and while each of them provides only minor 10% to 30% improvements, some provide more and combined the composite ratio is getting interesting. While these minor issues (even combined) won't give us the many orders of magnitude performance improvements that we'd like to see, they are important as they are paving the road to the more significant efficiency improvements. I documented the main idea here, as it belongs into the Hibernate Search engine: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1699 I don't expect that to be implemented overnight, but Gustavo already sent a PR for the ASYNC case, which is based on the same principle of avoiding the commits but is simpler to implement: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1693 We expect this one to be a proof of concept for the performance that we'll get from HSEARCH-1699, and also I think it's very useful on its own: previously users of ASYNC indexing were forced into a "very async" architecture which might have been a bit too hard to manage, while now being able to set a maximum delay for the async operation I also expect that to be an acceptable compromise for a much wider range of use cases. Essentially this will decouple the achievable throughput of indexed caches from the RPC latency, although obviously this latency will still be the limiting factor for some dimensions, especially the response time for a single synchronous indexed write will still be affected primarily by the ability of Infinispan to improve the number of blocking RPCs needed for a single write. Feedback very welcome! Sanne