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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-922:
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In response to Raghu's comments: By "small seeks" I meant "seeks within the 
current block". The contents of this block was already fetched by the 
preceeding read call. If a datablock is 128MB then even a 100MB seek could 
trigger this particular optimization.

> Optimize small reads and seeks
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-922
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-922
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.1
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>         Assigned To: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: smallreadseek3.patch
>
>
> A seek on a DFSInputStream causes causes the next read to re-open the socket 
> connection to the datanode and fetch the remainder of the block all over 
> again. This is not optimal.
> A small read followed by a small positive seek could re-utilize the data 
> already fetched from the datanode as part of the previous read. 

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