sdong [Mon, 19 May 2014 17:40:18 +0000 (10:40 -0700)]
ThreadPool to allow decrease number of threads and increase of number of threads is to be instantly scheduled
Summary:
Add a feature to decrease the number of threads in thread pool.
Also instantly schedule more threads if number of threads is increased.
Here is the way it is implemented: each background thread needs its thread ID. After decreasing number of threads, all threads are woken up. The thread with the largest thread ID will terminate. If there are more threads to terminate, the thread will wake up all threads again.
Another change is made so that when number of threads is increased, more threads are created and all previous excessive threads are woken up to do the work.
Igor Canadi [Thu, 15 May 2014 23:07:05 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
Add rapidjson to RocksDB
Summary:
This diff adds rapidjson (https://code.google.com/p/rapidjson/) to RocksDB repository. First step to adding JSON is to add a JSON parser :)
I'm not sure if rapidjson is the right choice. I only considered folly as an alternative. Using folly JSON parser has serious downsides. I tried extracting folly::json from the folly library. However, it depends on folly::dynamic, which basically depends on everything else. I would prefer to avoid adding complete folly library as RocksDB dependency. Folly has a lot of its own dependencies (https://github.com/facebook/folly) and also looks like open source world has some trouble installing it (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/facebook-folly -- 60% of the posts are compile errors). We can discuss this if you think otherwise.
RapidJSON does not have any dependencies whatsoever. No boost, no STL. We don't need to compile it since it's all header files. The performance results are also impressive: https://code.google.com/p/rapidjson/wiki/Performance. However, I'll make sure to write code in a way that we can easily switch JSON implementations going forward. Quora thread has some alternatives: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-C-JSON-library