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Hand items to AbstractAsyncWriter's writing thread in batches - #1956
AbstractAsyncWriter now hands items to its writing thread in batches instead of one at a time.
Each write put one item on an ArrayBlockingQueue whose single lock both threads take, did two atomic exchanges looking for a failure, and woke the writer, which polled items one at a time. Items now collect in the calling thread and go over in batches of a quarter of the queue size (at most 1,024; one item for a queue below 4), so about as many items wait in the queue as before. The failure check is a plain read first.
Unchanged: the close protocol (close hands over the last partial batch), and a failure clearing the queue so a blocked caller wakes and sees it. New: an item may wait in the caller until its batch fills or the writer closes, and a failure can be reported up to a batch later.
Covers SAMFileWriterFactory.setUseAsyncIo(true), AsyncVariantContextWriter and AsyncFastqWriter.
New AsyncWriterBenchmark, 3 forks a side: 2,000,000 items to a writer that only sums them 272.9 → 55.3 ms (-80%, t=-27.5); 200,000 records through an async BAM writer 169.1 → 148.1 ms (-12%, t=-36.3).
The idea comes from broadinstitute/picard#2063, whose MarkDuplicates writer passes records over in arrays of 1,024; the code here is new.
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Asynchronous writers now hand off items in batches, improving throughput. Items may wait until a batch is full or the writer is closed before being handed off.
Errors from the writing thread may be reported up to one batch later.
Each write put one item on an ArrayBlockingQueue whose one lock both
threads take, did two atomic exchanges looking for a failure, and woke
the writing thread, which polled for items one at a time. Items now
collect in the calling thread and go over in batches of a quarter of
the queue size (at most 1,024; one item for a queue below 4), so about
as many items wait in the queue as before, and the failure check is a
plain read first. Termination and failure handling are unchanged:
close() hands over the last partial batch, and a failure clears the
queue so that a blocked caller wakes and sees it.
AsyncWriterBenchmark, 3 forks a side: handing 2,000,000 items to a
writing thread that only sums them fell from 272.9 to 55.3 ms (-80%,
t=-27.5), and writing 200,000 records through an asynchronous BAM
writer fell from 169.1 to 148.1 ms (-12%, t=-36.3).
The idea comes from broadinstitute/picard#2063, whose MarkDuplicates
writer passes records over in arrays of 1,024.
AbstractAsyncWriter now hands items to its writer thread in batches. Closing the writer flushes any remaining items. New tests cover ordering, close-time flushing, and failure reporting. New JMH benchmarks measure integer handoff and asynchronous BAM writing.
Changes: Asynchronous Writer Batching
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Batch handoff and processing src/main/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AbstractAsyncWriter.java, src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AsyncWriterTest.java, CHANGELOG.md
AbstractAsyncWriter queues items in batches sized at one quarter of the queue size, with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 1,024. Closing queues any remaining items. Tests check item order, close-time flushing, and failure reporting. The changelog describes batch waiting and delayed failure reporting.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant AbstractAsyncWriter
participant Queue
participant WriterThread
Caller->>AbstractAsyncWriter: write(item)
AbstractAsyncWriter->>AbstractAsyncWriter: add item to current batch
AbstractAsyncWriter->>Queue: enqueue batch when full
Queue->>WriterThread: provide batch
WriterThread->>WriterThread: write each item
Caller->>AbstractAsyncWriter: close()
AbstractAsyncWriter->>Queue: enqueue remaining items
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The 100,000-write Assert.expectThrows only proves that a failure occurs during the loop or close(). It does not verify that a write reports the recorded failure within one subsequent batch.
Add a synchronized test signal immediately after failure publication. After the signal, attempt one configured handoff batch and assert that at least one write throws the recorded MyException.
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Review comment at @src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AsyncWriterTest.java
around lines 133 - 143:
Update testAFailureInTheWritingThreadIsThrownByALaterWriteOrClose to synchronize
on publication of the writer-thread failure, then attempt at most one configured
handoff batch of writes and assert that a write throws the recorded MyException.
Replace the 100,000-write loop and combined close assertion, which do not
establish when the failure is observed.
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Review comments at @src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AsyncWriterTest.java:
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testAFailureInTheWritingThreadIsThrownByALaterWriteOrClose to synchronize on
publication of the writer-thread failure, then attempt at most one configured
handoff batch of writes and assert that a write throws the recorded MyException.
Replace the 100,000-write loop and combined close assertion, which do not
establish when the failure is observed.
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AbstractAsyncWriternow hands items to its writing thread in batches instead of one at a time.writeput one item on anArrayBlockingQueuewhose single lock both threads take, did two atomic exchanges looking for a failure, and woke the writer, which polled items one at a time. Items now collect in the calling thread and go over in batches of a quarter of the queue size (at most 1,024; one item for a queue below 4), so about as many items wait in the queue as before. The failure check is a plain read first.SAMFileWriterFactory.setUseAsyncIo(true),AsyncVariantContextWriterandAsyncFastqWriter.AsyncWriterBenchmark, 3 forks a side: 2,000,000 items to a writer that only sums them 272.9 → 55.3 ms (-80%, t=-27.5); 200,000 records through an async BAM writer 169.1 → 148.1 ms (-12%, t=-36.3).The idea comes from broadinstitute/picard#2063, whose MarkDuplicates writer passes records over in arrays of 1,024; the code here is new.
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