@Corey The POC Steven and Wes are working on is based on MappedBuffer but I'm looking at using netty's fork of tcnative to use shared memory directly.
@Yiannis We need to have both RPC and a shared memory mechanisms (what I'm inclined to call IPC but is a specific kind of IPC). The idea is we negotiate via RPC and then if we determine shared locality, we work over shared memory (preferably for both data and control). So the system interacting with HBase in your example would be the one responsible for placing collocated execution to take advantage of IPC. How do others feel of my redefinition of IPC to mean the same memory space communication (either via shared memory or rdma) versus RPC as socket based communication? On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Corey Nolet <cjno...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was seeing Netty's unsafe classes being used here, not mapped byte > buffer not sure if that statement is completely correct but I'll have to > dog through the code again to figure that out. > > The more I was looking at unsafe, it makes sense why that would be > used.apparently it's also supposed to be included on Java 9 as a first > class API > On Mar 15, 2016 7:03 PM, "Wes McKinney" <w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > My understanding is that you can use java.nio.MappedByteBuffer to work > > with memory-mapped files as one way to share memory pages between Java > > (and non-Java) processes without copying. > > > > I am hoping that we can reach a POC of zero-copy Arrow memory sharing > > Java-to-Java and Java-to-C++ in the near future. Indeed this will have > > huge implications once we get it working end to end (for example, > > receiving memory from a Java process in Python without a heavy ser-de > > step -- it's what we've always dreamed of) and with the metadata and > > shared memory control flow standardized. > > > > - Wes > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Corey J Nolet <cjno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, Arrow is using Netty underneath which is > > using Sun's Unsafe API in order to allocate direct byte buffers off heap. > > It is using Netty to communicate between "client" and "server", > information > > about memory addresses for data that is being requested. > > > > > > I've never attempted to use the Unsafe API to access off heap memory > > that has been allocated in one JVM from another JVM but I'm assuming this > > must be the case in order to claim that the memory is being accessed > > directly without being copied, correct? > > > > > > The implication here is huge. If the memory is being directly shared > > across processes by them being allowed to directly reach into the direct > > byte buffers, that's true shared memory. Otherwise, if there's copies > going > > on, it's less appealing. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > >
