Benjamin Roth created CASSANDRA-13064:
-----------------------------------------
Summary: Add stream type or purpose to stream plan / stream
Key: CASSANDRA-13064
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13064
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Benjamin Roth
It would be very good to know the type or purpose of a certain stream on the
receiver side. It should be both available in a stream request and a stream
task.
Why?
It would be helpful to distinguish the purpose to allow different handling of
streams and requests. Examples:
- In stream request a global flush is done. This is not necessary for all types
of streams. A repair stream(-plan) does not require a flush as this has been
done shortly before in validation compaction and only the sstables that have
been validated also have to be streamed.
- In StreamReceiveTask streams for MVs go through the regular write path this
is painfully slow especially on bootstrap and decomission. Both for bootstrap
and decommission this is not necessary. Sstables can be directly streamed down
in this case. Handling bootstrap is no problem as it relies on a local state
but during decommission, the decom-state is bound to the sender and not the
receiver, so the receiver has to know that it is safe to stream that sstable
directly, not through the write-path. Thats why we have to know the purpose of
the stream.
I'd love to implement this on my own but I am not sure how not to break the
streaming protocol for backwards compat or if it is ok to do so.
Furthermore I'd love to get some feedback on that idea and some proposals what
stream types to distinguish. I could imagine:
- bootstrap
- decommission
- repair
- replace node
- remove node
- range relocation
Comments like this support my idea, knowing the purpose could avoid this.
{quote}
// TODO each call to transferRanges re-flushes, this is
potentially a lot of waste
streamPlan.transferRanges(newEndpoint, preferred, keyspaceName,
ranges);
{/quote}
And alternative to passing the purpose of the stream was to pass flags like:
- requiresFlush
- requiresWritePathForMaterializedView
...
I guess passing the purpose will make the streaming protocol more robust for
future changes and leaves decisions up to the receiver.
But an additional "requiresFlush" would also avoid putting too much logic into
the streaming code. The streaming code should not care about purposes, the
caller or receiver should. So the decision if a stream requires as flush before
stream should be up to the stream requester and the stream request receiver
depending on the purpose of the stream.
I'm excited about your feedback :)
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)
