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Chris Nauroth commented on HDFS-9924:
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+1 for the proposal. I expect this will be very helpful for workloads like
Hive partition renames, which consist of a large set of rename operations, all
independent of one another with no ordering dependencies between the
operations. There will be some tricky details to work out in the RPC client
layer, but it's well worth the effort in my opinion.
> [umbrella] Asynchronous HDFS Access
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> Key: HDFS-9924
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9924
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
> Assignee: Xiaobing Zhou
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> This is an umbrella JIRA for supporting Asynchronous HDFS Access.
> Currently, all the API methods are blocking calls -- the caller is blocked
> until the method returns. It is very slow if a client makes a large number
> of independent calls in a single thread since each call has to wait until the
> previous call is finished. It is inefficient if a client needs to create a
> large number of threads to invoke the calls.
> We propose adding a new API to support asynchronous calls, i.e. the caller is
> not blocked. The methods in the new API immediately return a Java Future
> object. The return value can be obtained by the usual Future.get() method.
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