I posted the TestDFSIO comparison with and without federation to HDFS-1052.
Please let me know if it addresses your concern. I am also adding it here:
TestDFSIO read tests
*Without federation:*
----- TestDFSIO ----- : read
Date & time: Wed Apr 27 02:04:24 PDT 2011
Number of files: 1000
Total MBytes processed: 30000.0
Throughput mb/sec: 43.62329251162561
Average IO rate mb/sec: 44.619869232177734
IO rate std deviation: 5.060306158158443
Test exec time sec: 959.943
*With federation:*
----- TestDFSIO ----- : read
Date & time: Wed Apr 27 02:43:10 PDT 2011
Number of files: 1000
Total MBytes processed: 30000.0
Throughput mb/sec: 45.657513857055456
Average IO rate mb/sec: 46.72107696533203
IO rate std deviation: 5.455125923399539
Test exec time sec: 924.922
TestDFSIO write tests
*Without federation:*
----- TestDFSIO ----- : write
Date & time: Wed Apr 27 01:47:50 PDT 2011
Number of files: 1000
Total MBytes processed: 30000.0
Throughput mb/sec: 35.940755259031015
Average IO rate mb/sec: 38.236236572265625
IO rate std deviation: 5.929484960036511
Test exec time sec: 1266.624
*With federation:*
----- TestDFSIO ----- : write
Date & time: Wed Apr 27 02:27:12 PDT 2011
Number of files: 1000
Total MBytes processed: 30000.0
Throughput mb/sec: 42.17884674597227
Average IO rate mb/sec: 43.11423873901367
IO rate std deviation: 5.357057259968647
Test exec time sec: 1135.298
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, suresh srinivas <srini30...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Konstantin,
>
> Could you provide me link to how this was done on a big feature, like say
> append and how benchmark info was captured? I am planning to run dfsio
> tests, btw.
>
> Regards,
> Suresh
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM, suresh srinivas <srini30...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Konstantin,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Konstantin Shvachko <
>> shv.had...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Suresh, Sanjay.
>>>
>>> 1. I asked for benchmarks many times over the course of different
>>> discussions on the topic.
>>> I don't see any numbers attached to jira, and I was getting the same
>>> response,
>>> Doug just got from you, guys: which is "why would the performance be
>>> worse".
>>> And this is not an argument for me.
>>>
>>
>> We had done testing earlier and had found that performance had not
>> degraded. We are waiting for out performance team to publish the official
>> numbers to post it to the jira. Unfortunately they are busy qualifying 2xx
>> releases currently. I will get the perf numbers and post them.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. I assume that merging requires a vote. I am sure people who know
>>> bylaws
>>> better than I do will correct me if it is not true.
>>> Did I miss the vote?
>>>
>>
>>
>> As regards to voting, since I was not sure about the procedure, I had
>> consulted Owen about it. He had indicated that voting is not necessary. If
>> the right procedure is to call for voting, I will do so. Owen any comments?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It feels like you are rushing this and are not doing what you would
>>> expect
>>> others to
>>> do in the same position, and what has been done in the past for such
>>> large
>>> projects.
>>>
>>
>> I am not trying to rush here and not follow the procedure required. I am
>> not sure about what the procedure is. Any pointers to it is appreciated.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Konstantin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Suresh, Sanjay,
>>> >
>>> > Thank you very much for addressing my questions.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >
>>> > Doug
>>> >
>>> > On 04/26/2011 10:29 AM, suresh srinivas wrote:
>>> > > Doug,
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >> 1. Can you please describe the significant advantages this approach
>>> has
>>> > >> over a symlink-based approach?
>>> > >
>>> > > Federation is complementary with symlink approach. You could choose
>>> to
>>> > > provide integrated namespace using symlinks. However, client side
>>> mount
>>> > > tables seems a better approach for many reasons:
>>> > > # Unlike symbolic links, client side mount tables can choose to go to
>>> > right
>>> > > namenode based on configuration. This avoids unnecessary RPCs to the
>>> > > namenodes to discover the targer of symlink.
>>> > > # The unavailability of a namenode where a symbolic link is
>>> configured
>>> > does
>>> > > not affect reaching the symlink target.
>>> > > # Symbolic links need not be configured on every namenode in the
>>> cluster
>>> > and
>>> > > future changes to symlinks need not be propagated to multiple
>>> namenodes.
>>> > In
>>> > > client side mount tables, this information is in a central
>>> configuration.
>>> > >
>>> > > If a deployment still wants to use symbolic link, federation does not
>>> > > preclude it.
>>> > >
>>> > >> It seems to me that one could run multiple namenodes on separate
>>> boxes
>>> > > and run multile datanode processes per storage box
>>> > >
>>> > > There are several advantages to using a single datanode:
>>> > > # When you have large number of namenodes (say 20), the cost of
>>> running
>>> > > separate datanodes in terms of process resources such as memory is
>>> huge.
>>> > > # The disk i/o management and storage utilization using a single
>>> datanode
>>> > is
>>> > > much better, as it has complete view the storage.
>>> > > # In the approach you are proposing, you have several clusters to
>>> manage.
>>> > > However with federation, all datanodes are in a single cluster; with
>>> > single
>>> > > configuration and operationally easier to manage.
>>> > >
>>> > >> The patch modifies much of the logic of Hadoop's central component,
>>> upon
>>> > > which the performance and reliability of most other components of the
>>> > > ecosystem depend.
>>> > > That is not true.
>>> > >
>>> > > # Namenode is mostly unchanged in this feature.
>>> > > # Read/write pipelines are unchanged.
>>> > > # The changes are mainly in datanode:
>>> > > #* the storage, FSDataset, Directory and Disk scanners now have
>>> another
>>> > > level to incorporate block pool ID into the hierarchy. This is not a
>>> > > significant change that should cause performance or stability
>>> concerns.
>>> > > #* datanodes use a separate thread per NN, just like the existing
>>> thread
>>> > > that communicates with NN.
>>> > >
>>> > >> Can you please tell me how this has been tested beyond unit tests?
>>> > > As regards to testing, we have passed 600+ tests. In hadoop, these
>>> tests
>>> > > are mostly integration tests and not pure unit tests.
>>> > >
>>> > > While these tests have been extensive, we have also been testing this
>>> > branch
>>> > > for last 4 months, with QA validation that reflects our production
>>> > > environment. We have found the system to be stable, performing well
>>> and
>>> > have
>>> > > not found any blockers with the branch so far.
>>> > >
>>> > > HDFS-1052 has been open more than a year now. I had also sent an
>>> email
>>> > about
>>> > > this merge around 2 months ago. There are 90 subtasks that have been
>>> > worked
>>> > > on last couple of months under HDFS-1052. Given that there was enough
>>> > time
>>> > > to ask these questions, your email a day before I am planning to
>>> merge
>>> > the
>>> > > branch into trunk seems late!
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Suresh
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Suresh
>
>
--
Regards,
Suresh
