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Tim Broberg commented on HADOOP-8148:
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Considering my previous comment of 11/Apr/12 23:58 suggesting that the read()
function should return a buffer rather than filling a buffer provided by the
caller.
This means that the buffers are owned by the stream layer. The definition
suggested also implies that the stream layer picks the buffer size, which can
be good as the stream layer knows what buffer sizes are appropriate for the
compression algorithms in question.
Is that ok?
> Zero-copy ByteBuffer-based compressor / decompressor API
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-8148
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8148
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io
> Reporter: Tim Broberg
> Assignee: Tim Broberg
> Attachments: hadoop8148.patch
>
>
> Per Todd Lipcon's comment in HDFS-2834, "
> Whenever a native decompression codec is being used, ... we generally have
> the following copies:
> 1) Socket -> DirectByteBuffer (in SocketChannel implementation)
> 2) DirectByteBuffer -> byte[] (in SocketInputStream)
> 3) byte[] -> Native buffer (set up for decompression)
> 4*) decompression to a different native buffer (not really a copy -
> decompression necessarily rewrites)
> 5) native buffer -> byte[]
> with the proposed improvement we can hopefully eliminate #2,#3 for all
> applications, and #2,#3,and #5 for libhdfs.
> "
> The interfaces in the attached patch attempt to address:
> A - Compression and decompression based on ByteBuffers (HDFS-2834)
> B - Zero-copy compression and decompression (HDFS-3051)
> C - Provide the caller a way to know how the max space required to hold
> compressed output.
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