[infinispan-dev] Design of temote event handling in Hot Rod

[Manik Surtani]

On 22 Feb 2012, at 10:05, Galder Zamarreño wrote:

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>>> For 2, imagine a client that starts a remote cache manager, signs up for notifications in cache C, and has 50 threads interacting with cache C concurrently (so, 50 channels are open with the server). I don't want the server to send back 50 events for each interested cache operation that happens on the server side. 1 notification should be enough. This is one of the reasons I want "option #1".
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>> Yes, the server definitely needs to be smart enough to identify multiple connections from the same client, and this also needs to be distributed.  
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> +1, but the question is, how do you define "same client"? This is what I was getting to with "origin" earlier (a way to identify cache managers). You can't assume that a client IP to differentiate between different clients cos you could have multiple Hot Rod clients running independently in a machine.
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> If you have any other ideas, I'm happy to hear

Each client could be assigned a UUID when it first connects… and subsequent messages could include this UUID in a header.  Hmm, could get expensive though.

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>> E.g., if client C is connected to 2 server nodes S1 and S2, we don't want both S1 and S2 to send back the same notification,
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> +1 again, this can very easily done by using the isLocal() call in listeners. I was only planning to send notifications from the node where the operation is local, which gets around this issue.

+1.

>> Also, what are your thoughts around batching notifications?  
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> This could be handy to avoid overloading clients as well, but wasn't in my initial plans. 
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> What might be important at this stage is if we consider batching of notifications to be important, whether we'd want to embedd it into the protocol, so that an event notification response could return 1 to N notifications in a single message. This would be more optimal and should not result in a huge message since values will not be sent over, only keys if anything.
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> Otherwise, batching of notifications could be implemented at a later stage using a similar method to the replication queue. We could even consider using disruptor instead of a blocking queue…

Lets start without batching then, at least for a first pass.

Cheers
Manik

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