Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
NativeUnixDirectory is a Directory implementation that uses direct IO to write newly merged segments. Direct IO bypasses the kernel's buffer cache and write cache, making merge writes "invisible" to the kernel, though the reads for merging the N segments are still going through the kernel.
But today, NativeUnixDirectory uses a small JNI wrapper to access the O_DIRECT flag to open ... since JDK9 we can now pass that flag in pure java code, so we should now fix NativeUnixDirectory to not use JNI anymore.
We should also run some more realistic benchmarks seeing if this option really helps nodes that are doing concurrent indexing (merging) and searching.
