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Memcached 1.5.10 Release Notes

Date: 2018-8-10

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http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.5.10.tar.gz

Overview

Build, Bugfixes, and ... Blocks?

NOTE: For extstore users, -o ext_page_count= is deprecated and no longer works.

To specify device size: -o ext_path=/d/m/e:500G - extstore figures out the page count based on your desired page size. M|G|T|P supported.

This change is disruptive, but likely the last time I'll do this. There is higher confidence in extstore every month and people should be ready to rely on it. If the arguments change in the future, they will follow a strict deprecation cycle.

Also, basic JBOD support for extstore is here! If you have multiple similar devices, simply specify ext_path multiple times and it will stripe data across them, example: -o ext_path=/d1/e:1T,ext_path=/d2/e:1T

Make sure you experiment and specify enough ext_threads to fully utilize the drives. There's no hard rule on how many IO threads are necessary, but you need fewer threads for devices with lower latency.

Future releases will allow mixing different types of devices, ie:

  • drive A is a small persistent memory (Optane or similar) device
  • drive B is a large inexpensive flash SSD

You will be able to direct "compacted", longer lived items, onto the SSD. Or drive low TTL items onto the persistent memory, etc. This has been tested, but requires adjustments to the compaction algorithm before going into mainline.

Fixes

  • fix alignment issues on some ARM platforms for chunked items
  • add missing va_end() call to logger_log()

New Features

  • basic extstore JBOD support (noted in Overview)

  • split storage writer into its own thread

The extstore storage writer was co-located with the LRU maintenance thread. This change separates it into its own thread, which brings up the performance consistency and throughput. This is especially true during benchmarks, which could easily starve the extstore flush routine of resources. Most users are unlikely to notice a difference.

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.5.9.

Note that this is based on who contributed changes, not how they were done. In many cases, a code snippet on the mailing list or a bug report ended up as a commit with your name on it.

Note that this is just a summary of how many changes each person made which doesn't necessarily reflect how significant each change was. For details on what led up into a branch, either grab the git repo and look at the output of git log 1.5.9..1.5.10 or use a web view.

     4	dormando
     1	Gleicon Moraes
     1	Miroslav Lichvar
     1	phantom9999
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