Yes, with an async cache store this is possible since the entry may not have been written
to the store by the time the reader thread looks for an entry that has already been
evicted, transaction or no transaction.
On 16 Feb 2010, at 15:57, philippe van dyck wrote:
Hi Manik,
Still happening with the latest snapshot, but only when combining eviction, asynchronism
(and the filecachestore for some latency, but your memory setup with 10ms eviction should
work).
phil
P.S.: Sorry for not getting back to you, I've been sick for the past week, back on
track now.
Le 8 févr. 2010 à 13:52, Manik Surtani a écrit :
>
> On 6 Feb 2010, at 12:00, philippe van dyck wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't we consider this a bug ?
>
> Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce this. Followed your instructions below, see:
>
>
http://fisheye.jboss.org/changelog/Infinispan/trunk?cs=1465
>
> If you're on IRC at some point, ping me and lets chat abt this.
>
>>
>> There is obviously something fishy in the locking mechanism, since I suppose that
the idea of "eviction - I will not interfere" was related to the "no
wait" option when asking the lock.
>>
>> WDYT ?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> phil
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 5 févr. 2010 à 23:17, Manik Surtani a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2010, at 18:39, Philippe Van Dyck wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eviction tries to acquire a lock on the key to send to the store,
isn't this key locked by the ongoing committing transaction ?
>>>> Is the "Read uncommitted" isolation level related ? Aren't
we talking about write locks - not read locks ?
>>>> Do you mean that before the transaction is completely flushed, and all
the locks acquired, the eviction mechanism could jump in, acquire a lock and destroy an
entry ?
>>>
>>> Hm, that's a good point. The tx should own the WL and the eviction
thread should not be able to evict the entry in question.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, the InternalEntryFactory#createNewEntry() did the trick ;-)
>>>>
>>>> phil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Manik Surtani <manik(a)jboss.org>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 4 Feb 2010, at 17:36, Philippe Van Dyck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, bad news, still have the problem without async and with
purgeSynchronously="true".
>>>>>
>>>>> It is easy to test, create a transaction with 100000 updates (file
store) and use a maxEntries of "2" for the eviction.
>>>>>
>>>>> While the transaction is being committed, the eviction thread wakes
up and deletes entries.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this behavior is intended (?)
>>>>
>>>> Right, similar to using an async queue (which in effect is a batch write
to the store), a transaction too is a batch write to the store when the transaction
completes. So when the tx does finish, writes are flushed. prior to that, concurrent
threads not seeing the entry is expected since we don't support READ_UNCOMMITTED
semantics.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> phil
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Philippe Van Dyck
<pvdyck(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Totally agree... as long as any failing async transaction is
logged...
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, since none of my cache entries expire, they are all instances of
ImmortalCacheEntry.
>>>>> But since ImmortalCacheEntry does not update the "lastUsed"
field, LRU or FIFO are useless eviction strategies...
>>>>>
>>>>> My own eviction strategy, getting rid of a % of the size of the cache
in memory -> LRU first, does not work...
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea ? Should I use my own timer (even if there is one in
InternalCacheEntry) ?
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> phil
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Manik Surtani <manik(a)jboss.org>
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4 Feb 2010, at 16:27, Philippe Van Dyck wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am I missing something ? Loosing data is something I cannot
afford ! I Plan to use this store as a *permanent* one... I have no backup ! (Actually S3
is the backup) - So, no, I don't want this ... at any price ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then set <async enabled="false" /> in your cache
store config. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is exactly what I planned to do... for the FileCacheStore
since the latency is quite low and the failure rate almost zero.
>>>>>> But the S3 store is very slow, and asynchronism is not a
luxury...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now, I am trying to make my own custom solution based on
the size of the cache in memory (as trigger) and then I will evict specific oldest
entries... hoping that async transactions are fully committed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> reduced by looking through the async queue as well, before
checking the underlying store. But as I said, this just reduces the size of this window
and not eliminate it altogether, since this is async and there is no guarantee that the
cache store has finished writing internally (e.g., an fsync() operation or in the case of
S3, Amazon's eventual consistency model).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why should eviction be transactional? I don't need
eviction to be an all-or-nothing, reversible event. :) If an entry gets evicted, cool.
If not (for whatever reason), too bad, move on to the next evictable entry.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You are right, we don't want to rollback evictions... but
maybe we should use a priority queue to be sure that evictions are done after any other
command ? Doesn't it solve it all ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) The eviction thread runs (we could lower the priority of
this thread too)
>>>>>>> 2) It fills a queue of keys to evict
>>>>>>> 3) The async queue is prioritized and evicts entries ... when
there is nothing else to do (suddenly it looks like garbage collecting)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is a possibility. But I don't expect to be making any
drastic changes to the existing eviction code anymore. Don't know if you have been
following discussions re: LIRS, lock amortization, etc., but Vladimir is working on some
very interesting self-evicting, bounded data containers which would mean that the eviction
threads, etc all get ripped out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds terrific...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just to close the subject, shouldn't the documentation
explicitly say that async and eviction are not "compatible" ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this really has anything to do with
"incompatibilities". It's just the effects of queued/batched processing in
the cache store async threads. You will see the same problem if you:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. put (K, V)
>>>>> 2. The put is enqueued in the cache store
>>>>> 3. Restart the cache
>>>>> 4. get (K) // Data loss!? Just an async write that didn't have
time to complete.
>>>>>
>>>>> And the above has nothing to do with eviction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Manik
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