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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3672:
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> The RPC code is synchronous by definition.
Perhaps. It would not be hard to add async calls and responses to RPC. Maybe
you'd no longer call it "RPC" then? In any case, one could, e.g., add RPC
methods like:
/** return a call id */
public static int send(Method method, Object[] params, InetSocketAddress addr);
/** poll a set of call ids, returning count that are complete */
public static int select(int[] calls, boolean[] areDone, Object[] values);
Then the DFSClient code could then, each time it receives a buffer, before
returning to the client, request the next buffer, as a read-ahead.
> there will be a degradation of read performance compared to what we have now
Perhaps, but would it be significant? Would the costs outweigh the benefits of
sharing code, connection pools, security models, etc. with RPC code?
> support for persistent connections to improve random read performance.
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> Key: HADOOP-3672
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3672
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.17.0
> Environment: Linux 2.6.9-55 , Dual Core Opteron 280 2.4Ghz , 4GB
> memory
> Reporter: George Wu
> Attachments: pread_test.java
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>
> preads() establish new connections per request. yourkit java profiles show
> that this connection overhead is pretty significant on the DataNode.
> I wrote a simple microbenchmark program which does many iterations of pread()
> from different offsets of a large file. I hacked DFSClient/DataNode code to
> re-use the same connection/DataNode request handler thread. The performance
> improvement was 7% when the data is served from disk and 80% when the data is
> served from the OS page cache.
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