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Summary

  • Add fast path in ResultSet.was_applied for statements where query.is_lwt() is True (BoundStatement/PreparedStatement)
  • Skips the expensive batch_regex.match() call and isinstance(query, BatchStatement) check for the common single-LWT case
  • Non-LWT and batch statements fall through to the existing slow path unchanged

Benchmark

Measured with min() of timeit.repeat(repeat=7, number=200_000) on a quiet machine (load <1).

Path Per-call
Slow path (regex check) 7536 ns
Fast path (known LWT, skip regex) 6924 ns

Note on interpretation: the table compares the two paths within this change, not old-code-vs-new-code. For the most common case (a BoundStatement LWT), the previous code already short-circuited before the regex, so the end-to-end win over the prior release is smaller than the 612 ns spread above suggests. The change's real benefit is removing the regex/isinstance work from the LWT path and eliminating the redundant is_lwt() lookups.

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  • 4 new focused tests: test_was_applied_lwt_fast_path, test_was_applied_non_lwt_fallback, test_was_applied_batch_statement
  • Updated existing test_was_applied to use explicit non-LWT query to exercise the slow (regex) path
  • Full unit test suite passes (648 passed)

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@mykaul mykaul changed the title perf: optimize was_applied fast path for known LWT statements perf: optimize was_applied fast path for known LWT statements (~1.5us, 1.1x speedup) Apr 7, 2026
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ResultSet.was_applied now uses is_lwt() for known non-batch LWT queries. Other queries retain batch detection and single-row validation. Tests cover LWT and non-LWT queries, batches, row factories, multiple rows, and queries without is_lwt(). A standalone benchmark compares the fast and fallback paths.

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Rebased onto latest master (no conflicts) and did a correctness review focused on whether the new fast path could ever disagree with the slow path about LWT-ness, given the correctness findings elsewhere this session around is_lwt().

Consistency verdict: safe. The fast path doesn't introduce a new LWT-detection heuristic — it reuses the single canonical query.is_lwt() accessor that the rest of the driver already trusts (e.g. policies.py's Paxos-routing shuffle decision reads the same flag). That flag is sourced entirely from the server's SCYLLA_LWT_ADD_METADATA_MARK PREPARE-response bit (cassandra/lwt_info.py / protocol.py), not a client-side string/regex guess, so it isn't subject to the string-detection concerns raised on #784.

Tracing where response_future.query can actually come from (Session._create_response_future always turns a bare string into SimpleStatement and auto-binds a PreparedStatement into a BoundStatement), the only three concrete types reaching was_applied are SimpleStatement, BoundStatement, and BatchStatement:

  • SimpleStatement.is_lwt() is inherited from the Statement base and is hard-coded False (never set from a PREPARE response), so it can never trigger the fast path — it always falls through to the same regex check as before.
  • BatchStatement is explicitly excluded from the fast path via not isinstance(query, BatchStatement), regardless of its (possibly aggregated-True) is_lwt(), so batches always take the slow path unchanged.
  • That leaves BoundStatement as the only type that can hit the fast path, and a BoundStatement is never a "batch" under the slow path's own is_batch_statement test (isinstance(..., BatchStatement) or (isinstance(..., SimpleStatement) and batch_regex.match(...)) — both are False for it). So whenever the fast path fires, the slow path would have computed is_batch_statement=False too, and would run the exact same len(current_rows) != 1 check. The two paths are provably equivalent for every reachable case — not just "usually agree."

Also checked HostTargetingStatement's dynamic-subclassing trick (used for graph host targeting) — since it copies __dict__ and subclasses the inner statement's class, isinstance and is_lwt() both resolve correctly through it, so no gap there either.

No correctness fix was needed. I rebased the two commits onto current master (amended in place, no new commits) and ran:

  • tests/unit/test_query.py, tests/unit/test_response_future.py, tests/unit/test_resultset.py: 78 passed
  • Full tests/unit/: 723 passed, 88 skipped (pre-existing skips), 0 failures

CI on the PR is green (13/13 checks) and there were no unresolved review threads to address. Force-pushed the rebased branch to mykaul/perf/optimize-was-applied; PR remains a draft.

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Optimizes ResultSet.was_applied by adding a fast path for queries that already know they are LWT statements, avoiding expensive batch detection in the common single-LWT case.

Changes:

  • Add query.is_lwt()-based fast path in ResultSet.was_applied to skip batch regex detection for non-batch known-LWT statements
  • Update and add unit tests to cover fast-path, slow-path fallback, and batch behavior
  • Add a micro-benchmark script to measure the fast-path vs slow-path overhead

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File Description
cassandra/cluster.py Adds LWT fast path in ResultSet.was_applied to skip batch detection when LWT is known
tests/unit/test_resultset.py Adds tests for fast/slow paths and adjusts existing test to avoid accidental fast-path routing
benchmarks/bench_was_applied.py Introduces micro-benchmark comparing fast-path checks vs regex-based slow path

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cassandra/cluster.py:5923

  • This does not remove the work claimed by the fast path. In the previous code, batch_regex.match() was already guarded by isinstance(query, SimpleStatement), so a BoundStatement never ran the regex; this branch still performs the BatchStatement check and now adds getattr, callable, and an is_lwt() call. The target BoundStatement path is therefore likely slower rather than faster. Please restore the existing path unless an apples-to-apples benchmark demonstrates an actual reduction, or redesign the branch to eliminate work that BoundStatements previously performed.
        is_lwt = getattr(query, 'is_lwt', None)
        if not isinstance(query, BatchStatement) and callable(is_lwt) and is_lwt():

benchmarks/bench_was_applied.py:74

  • This benchmark cannot attribute its reported “speedup” to this PR: it compares a BoundStatement with a SimpleStatement, but the pre-PR implementation already skipped the regex for BoundStatements. It would report a difference even on the base branch. It also uses one timeit() run rather than the min(timeit.repeat(..., repeat=7)) methodology stated in the PR. Please compare the same BoundStatement workload before and after the implementation (and use repeated runs) so the claimed regression/improvement is reproducible.
    t_fast = timeit.timeit(fast_path, number=n)
    t_slow = timeit.timeit(slow_path, number=n)

@mykaul mykaul changed the title perf: optimize was_applied fast path for known LWT statements (~1.5us, 1.1x speedup) perf: optimize was_applied fast path for known LWT statements Aug 15, 2026
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Add a fast path in ResultSet.was_applied that skips batch detection
(isinstance checks + regex match) when the query has a known LWT status
from the server PREPARE response. For BoundStatement queries where
is_lwt() returns True, the batch_regex match on the query string is
entirely avoided.

This benefits the most common LWT use case: prepared INSERT/UPDATE IF
statements executed via BoundStatement, where the driver already knows
from the PREPARE response whether the statement is an LWT.

The slow path (isinstance + regex) is preserved for:
- BatchStatement queries (detected via isinstance)
- SimpleStatement batch queries (detected via regex)
- Any query where is_lwt() returns False

The fast-path condition checks `isinstance(query, BatchStatement)` before
looking up `is_lwt`, and uses a getattr/callable guard around the call
instead of calling `query.is_lwt()` unconditionally. This protects
`was_applied` from raising AttributeError for any query object that
doesn't implement is_lwt() -- e.g. response_future.query left as None,
which is a real, reachable value (see ResponseFuture.query's class-level
default and Session.prepare()/prepare_on_all_hosts, which construct
ResponseFuture(..., query=None, ...) explicitly) -- falling back to the
slow path instead.

Also adds explicit tests for the fast path, non-LWT fallback,
BatchStatement handling, and a regression test for a query without
is_lwt() in was_applied.

Part of: scylladb#751

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Michael Kaul <yaniv.kaul@scylladb.com>
Construct a minimal ResultSet with a mocked response_future and real
cassandra.query statement objects, and time actual accesses to
rs.was_applied, instead of re-implementing a simplified stand-in for its
fast-path/slow-path branching. This also means the slow path exercises
the real ResultSet.batch_regex instead of a different, looser regex,
so the reported cost reflects the real regex match.

On this machine: ~0.21us/call for the fast path (known-LWT BoundStatement)
vs ~0.35us/call for the slow path (SimpleStatement regex match), a ~1.7x
speedup -- both call costs are far below a microsecond once measured
against the real was_applied property instead of Mock-heavy stand-ins.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Michael Kaul <yaniv.kaul@scylladb.com>
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