Hi Han, On 11/24/2016 04:25 AM, 한우형 wrote:
Hi, I'm working on dispersed volume(ec) and I found ec encode/decode algorithm is using non-systematic vandermonde matrix. My question is this: why non-systematic algorithm is used?
Non-systematic encoding/decoding doesn't alter performance when one or more bricks are down. This means that you won't have service degradation when you are having troubles with one brick or you are doing maintenance.
From the implementation perspective, a systematic approach would need to talk to all bricks anyway to check for critical metadata (gluster doesn't have a centralized metadata server). This means that the theoretical benefit of a systematic decoding for reads would be masked by the overhead needed for metadata operations (involving additional network round-trips).
That said, it's true that a systematic approach would have some benefits, like a little less CPU overhead. Not sure if the performance would benefit significantly though.
If we use systematic algorithm(not systematic vandermonde, It's not MDS)
A non-systematic Vandermonde matrix *IS* MDS. In fact, pure Vandermonde matrices are non-systematic by definition. Some alterations need to be done to make them systematic, and these transformations can lead to a non MDS matrix if not made with care.
we can boost read performance. (no need to decode step in read)
Though it would probably have some benefits, I'm not so sure that performance would improve significantly.
Current implementation of ec decoding can process 1GB/s of data per CPU core on low end processors (Intel Atoms with SSE2) using block sizes of 128KB and a 4+2 configuration. Currently this is much faster than what a pure distributed volume on same hardware can read for a single client/single thread.
So, for now, the non-systematic approach doesn't seem a bottle-neck for gluster. Anyway there are plans to provide a systematic version, but it's not a priority as of now.
Best regards, Xavi
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