Hi, So at technical level I don't understand this yet.
So you have a database consisting of single threaded shards and a socket for accept that is generating TCP connections and in advance you don't know which connection is going to send messages to which shard. What is the mechanism by which you get the packets for a given TCP connection delivered to a specific core? I know that a given TCP connection will normally have all of its packets delivered to the same queue from the NIC because the tuple of source address + port and destination address + port is typically hashed to pick one of the queues the NIC presents. I might have the contents of the tuple slightly wrong, but it always includes a component you don't get to control. Since it's hashing how do you manipulate which queue packets for a TCP connection go to and how is it made worse by having an accept socket per shard? You also mention 160 ports as bad, but it doesn't sound like a big number resource wise. Is it an operational headache? RE tokens distributed amongst shards. The way that would work right now is that each port number appears to be a discrete instance of the server. So you could have shards be actual shards that are simply colocated on the same box, run in the same process, and share resources. I know this pushes more of the complexity into the server vs the driver as the server expects all shards to share some client visible like system tables and certain identifiers. Ariel On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > Port-per-shard is likely the easiest option but it's too ugly to > contemplate. We run on machines with 160 shards (IBM POWER 2s20c160t > IIRC), it will be just horrible to have 160 open ports. > > > It also doesn't fit will with the NICs ability to automatically > distribute packets among cores using multiple queues, so the kernel > would have to shuffle those packets around. Much better to have those > packets delivered directly to the core that will service them. > > > (also, some protocol changes are needed so the driver knows how tokens > are distributed among shards) > > On 2018-04-19 19:46, Ben Bromhead wrote: > > WRT to #3 > > To fit in the existing protocol, could you have each shard listen on a > > different port? Drivers are likely going to support this due to > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7544 ( > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11596). I'm not super > > familiar with the ticket so their might be something I'm missing but it > > sounds like a potential approach. > > > > This would give you a path forward at least for the short term. > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:10 PM Ariel Weisberg <ar...@weisberg.ws> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I think that updating the protocol spec to Cassandra puts the onus on the > >> party changing the protocol specification to have an implementation of the > >> spec in Cassandra as well as the Java and Python driver (those are both > >> used in the Cassandra repo). Until it's implemented in Cassandra we haven't > >> fully evaluated the specification change. There is no substitute for trying > >> to make it work. > >> > >> There are also realities to consider as to what the maintainers of the > >> drivers are willing to commit. > >> > >> RE #1, > >> > >> I am +1 on the fact that we shouldn't require an extra hop for range scans. > >> > >> In JIRA Jeremiah made the point that you can still do this from the client > >> by breaking up the token ranges, but it's a leaky abstraction to have a > >> paging interface that isn't a vanilla ResultSet interface. Serial vs. > >> parallel is kind of orthogonal as the driver can do either. > >> > >> I agree it looks like the current specification doesn't make what should > >> be simple as simple as it could be for driver implementers. > >> > >> RE #2, > >> > >> +1 on this change assuming an implementation in Cassandra and the Java and > >> Python drivers. > >> > >> RE #3, > >> > >> It's hard to be +1 on this because we don't benefit by boxing ourselves in > >> by defining a spec we haven't implemented, tested, and decided we are > >> satisfied with. Having it in ScyllaDB de-risks it to a certain extent, but > >> what if Cassandra decides to go a different direction in some way? > >> > >> I don't think there is much discussion to be had without an example of the > >> the changes to the CQL specification to look at, but even then if it looks > >> risky I am not likely to be in favor of it. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ariel > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, at 9:33 AM, glom...@scylladb.com wrote: > >>> > >>> On 2018/04/19 07:19:27, kurt greaves <k...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > >>>>> 1. The protocol change is developed using the Cassandra process in > >>>>> a JIRA ticket, culminating in a patch to > >>>>> doc/native_protocol*.spec when consensus is achieved. > >>>> I don't think forking would be desirable (for anyone) so this seems > >>>> the most reasonable to me. For 1 and 2 it certainly makes sense but > >>>> can't say I know enough about sharding to comment on 3 - seems to me > >>>> like it could be locking in a design before anyone truly knows what > >>>> sharding in C* looks like. But hopefully I'm wrong and there are > >>>> devs out there that have already thought that through. > >>> Thanks. That is our view and is great to hear. > >>> > >>> About our proposal number 3: In my view, good protocol designs are > >>> future proof and flexible. We certainly don't want to propose a design > >>> that works just for Scylla, but would support reasonable > >>> implementations regardless of how they may look like. > >>> > >>>> Do we have driver authors who wish to support both projects? > >>>> > >>>> Surely, but I imagine it would be a minority. > >>>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For > >>> additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >>> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >> > >> -- > > Ben Bromhead > > CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> > > +1 650 284 9692 > > Reliability at Scale > > Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
