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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-1093:
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The numbers I listed were purely from the RPC module. In that case, each 
createfile rpc could have created multiple components in the specified path.  
similarly, a delete cal could have been recursive and could have deleted 
multiple paths recursively.

> Improve namenode scalability by splitting the FSNamesystem synchronized 
> section in a read/write lock
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>                 Key: HDFS-1093
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1093
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: name-node
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: NNreadwriteLock.txt
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> Most critical data structures in the NameNode (NN) are protected by a 
> syncronized methods in the FSNamesystem class. This essentially makes 
> critical code paths in the NN single-threaded. However, a large percentage of 
> the NN calls are listStatus, getBlockLocations, etc which do not change 
> internal data structures at all, these are read-only calls. If we change the 
> FSNamesystem lock to a read/write lock, many of the above operations can 
> occur in parallel, thus improving the scalability of the NN.

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