[hibernate-dev] [infinispan-dev] Infinispan tx, config and multithreading

Fri Aug 14 13:08:33 EDT 2009

Yes let's keep it simple for know, even if I think Manik's suggestion
should work: if the IndexWriter will do reads it can use a
"Future-like" pattern to make the other thread return values
maintaining order of transformations applied to the index).
The IndexWriter must be able to maintain a coherent state by internal
concurrency, otherwise it won't work on filesystems, so if we trust
that and guarantee to process the tasks he (the IndexWriter) assigns
in the order he asked to process them, it should be ok.

I used org.hibernate.search.batchindexing.ProducerConsumerQueue to
"pipeline" changes in batch mode, it could be useful for this too when
you'll want to remove the SerialMergeScheduler limitation.

2009/8/14 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
> OK so let's try something.
> Lukasz, can you try and use the SerialMergeScheduler policy on the index
> writer and see what is going on.
> It will make indexing slower for Infinispan but it seems we can't do much
> better in the short time.
> If that works then we will put some restriction in place when reading the
> config. The index writer for this given index will be forced to use the
> serial strategy,
> On 14 août 09, at 06:23, Łukasz Moreń wrote:
>
> Expensive is replication to all Infinispan nodes. IndexWriter creates
> segment files, merge it to one compound segment, delete already useless
> descriptor files - many files that must be replicated. Some of them even
> don't need to be replicated because they are inserted into directory at the
> begin of index commit process and removed at the end. Batching helps with
> performance here.
> Yes, I think IndexWriter works like you wrote.
>
> 2009/8/14 Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org>
>>
>> On 14 Aug 2009, at 10:17, Łukasz Moreń wrote:
>>
>> Yes, but i.e. FSDirectory flushes changes if any file descriptor is
>> created/updated - can be many in one IndexWriter life.
>> In infinispan case implementation, I want to commit changes only
>> when IndexWriter is closing - batch all modifications.
>> If I switch to transaction per descriptor modification - similarly how
>> it's done in FSDirectory it works well, however not efficient.
>>
>> So what's expensive here?  Writing to Infinispan, or the indexing itself?
>>  Correct me if I am wrong, I assume that the IndexWriter creates multiple
>> threads, and each thread does: {
>> // some indexing work
>> // write these indexes to Infinispan
>> }
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> 2009/8/14 Sanne Grinovero <sanne.grinovero at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I am not an expert on this part of Lucene, but it looks like to me
>>> that the IndexWriter is the "driver/coordinator", and it's decisions
>>> are affected by a pluggable MergeScheduler; they do stuff on the
>>> internal buffers of the IndexWriter (dequeue the pending segments to
>>> be written to the index), but it shouldn't matter what they exactly do
>>> as the internal status of these classes are unaffected by our
>>> transactions.
>>> They take some decision about writing segments to the Directory and
>>> committing changes ("sync()") : as you implement this Directory you
>>> should only have to take care of this class, I don't think the
>>> MergeScheduler(s) are relevant: it just happens that the thread going
>>> to apply changes to the index might be a different one than the one
>>> pushing changes to the IndexWriter.
>>>
>>> In the Directory implementation you should use transactions to push
>>> state changes to the "underlying storage": as FSDirectory is playing
>>> with file descriptors and flushes, you do the same with Infinispan
>>> transactions.
>>>
>>> 2009/8/14 Łukasz Moreń <lukasz.moren at gmail.com>:
>>> > Yes, right, MergeSchedulers.
>>> >
>>> > 2009/8/14 Sanne Grinovero <sanne.grinovero at gmail.com>
>>> >>
>>> >> what are these "other" threads? Are you speaking about the
>>> >> MergeSchedulers?
>>> >>
>>> >> 2009/8/13 Łukasz Moreń <lukasz.moren at gmail.com>:
>>> >> > IndexWriter processes index update and delegates some job to other
>>> >> > threads and waits when they finish. These "other" threads works on
>>> >> > data modified
>>> >> > in IndexWriter transaction. So I think if I use transaction per
>>> >> > thread, "others" would not see data modified by IndexWriter until
>>> >> > commit.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 2009/8/13, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>>> >> >> Ah I thought it was using multiple threads because of your mass
>>> >> >> indexing. I did not know some threads were span specifically for
>>> >> >> the
>>> >> >> Infinispan directory.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> On 13 août 09, at 17:34, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>> Hi Łukasz,
>>> >> >>> what is your usage of these threads? did you consider using one
>>> >> >>> transaction per thread?
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> Sanne
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> 2009/8/13 Łukasz Moreń <lukasz.moren at gmail.com>:
>>> >> >>>> Newly created threads were not associated with any transaction,
>>> >> >>>> so I
>>> >> >>>> suppose it was a problem. Sharing transaction between threads
>>> >> >>>> seems
>>> >> >>>> to
>>> >> >>>> be a good solution.
>>> >> >>>> Thanks for help!
>>> >> >>>>
>>> >> >>>> 2009/8/13, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>:
>>> >> >>>>> Correct. Also there could be read races as well, so if you are
>>> >> >>>>> going to
>>> >> >>>>> share a tx between threads, i would use some shared lock to
>>> >> >>>>> gaurantee
>>> >> >>>>> that only one thread can use it at a time. BTW this means you
>>> >> >>>>> have
>>> >> >>>>> to
>>> >> >>>>> properly suspend/resume the TX via the TM API as well.
>>> >> >>>>>
>>> >> >>>>> Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>> >> >>>>>> Modifying a transaction means applying muations (like SQL
>>> >> >>>>>> INSERT /
>>> >> >>>>>> UPDATE / DELETE) to the transactional resource?
>>> >> >>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>> On 13 août 09, at 15:07, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>>> >> >>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>> When using transactions, the context is bound to the
>>> >> >>>>>>> transaction, and
>>> >> >>>>>>> you can move a transaction between threads. However, you
>>> >> >>>>>>> should
>>> >> >>>>>>> only
>>> >> >>>>>>> be modifying a transaction with one thread at a time.
>>> >> >>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>> Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>> >> >>>>>>>> Could it be that you are not using the same transaction
>>> >> >>>>>>>> between
>>> >> >>>>>>>> different threads (ie you physically start different ones or
>>> >> >>>>>>>> different  "Infinispan contexts")?
>>> >> >>>>>>>> Infini guys, do you support transactional operation spanning
>>> >> >>>>>>>> several
>>> >> >>>>>>>> concurrent threads?
>>> >> >>>>>>>> On 13 août 09, at 14:04, Łukasz Moreń wrote:
>>> >> >>>>>>>>> I've tried with JBoss AS transaction manager and
>>> >> >>>>>>>>> JBossStandaloneTM.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>> The result is this same in all cases - error during merge.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>> 2009/8/12, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Ok I understand better now.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Do your tests in JBoss AS with it's decent transaction
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> manager
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> (infinispan should have a config for it)
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> For unit testing, force the indexing process in hibernate
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> to
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> use a
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> single thread (I ghnk it's possible ask Sanne of you don't
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> know how).
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Exposing some configuration to infinispan makes sense. can
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> you
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> start a
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> thread explainig what is configurable and which one you
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> think
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> we
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> should expose to hsearch users. Ideally I would like to
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> offer
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> one or
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> two defaut config scenarios and allow to fallback to a
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> custom
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> config.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> Emmanuel
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> On 12 août 2009, at 11:58, Łukasz Moreń
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> <lukasz.moren at gmail.com>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Sorry, but my wifi does not work well today. I will try to
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> explain
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> it more clear.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> I'm using DummyTransactionManager available for
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Infinispan.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> It associates transaction with the calling thread.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Steps to update index:
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 1. index writer acquires lock - begin of transaction
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 2. if it is necessary, index writer delegates new threads
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> to
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> do
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> merge work.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Those merge threads do not see changes made so far from
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> begin of
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> transaction,
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> and are looking for segments which are not yet in index.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Changes will be visible when AD.3 is completed.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> For tests i tried to commit transaction when merge starts
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> and then
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> everything worked well. But then i need to start it again.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 3. index writer releases lock - transaction is commited,
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> all
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> changes
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> made in this transaction are visible for other threads.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Maybe using some other transaction manager could help?
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> What about Infinispan cache configuration? Some
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> configuration
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> mechanism should be exposed to the user,
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> or we can hardcoded one in InfinispanDirectoryProvider is
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> enough?
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 2009/8/12 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> why?
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Emmanuel Bernard
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Pending
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> you there?
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Emmanuel Bernard
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Pending
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Ok please describe in details what is going on. From what
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> you are
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> describing the tx cannot see all segments which looks like
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> an
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> infinispan bug to me.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Pending
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> As a back up you can try wo transaction and see if that
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> works
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Emmanuel Bernard
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Pending
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> technically the lucene index should cope with that
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Emmanuel Bernard
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 11:16
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> but I like this approach less
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Let's try and chat by email IF I'm not online, I need to
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> run
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> on some
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>> errands today.
>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> >> >>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>>> --
>>> >> >>>>>>> Jason T. Greene
>>> >> >>>>>>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>>> >> >>>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>
>>> >> >>>>>
>>> >> >>>>> --
>>> >> >>>>> Jason T. Greene
>>> >> >>>>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>>> >> >>>>>
>>> >> >>>>
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