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Owen O'Malley reassigned HADOOP-248: ------------------------------------ Assignee: Devaraj Das (was: Owen O'Malley) > locating map outputs via random probing is inefficient > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-248 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-248 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.2.1 > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Assigned To: Devaraj Das > > Currently the ReduceTaskRunner polls the JobTracker for a random list of map > tasks asking for their output locations. It would be better if the JobTracker > kept an ordered log and the interface was changed to: > class MapLocationResults { > public int getTimestamp(); > public MapOutputLocation[] getLocations(); > } > interface InterTrackerProtocol { > ... > MapLocationResults locateMapOutputs(int prevTimestamp); > } > with the intention that each time a ReduceTaskRunner calls locateMapOutputs, > it passes back the "timestamp" that it got from the previous result. That > way, reduces can easily find the new MapOutputs. This should help the "ramp > up" when the maps first start finishing. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira