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Hua Liu updated HDFS-9901:
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    Description: 
During heavy disk IO, we noticed hearbeat thread hangs on checkBlock method, 
which checks the existence and length of a block before spins off a thread to 
do the actual transferring. In extreme cases, the heartbeat thread hang more 
than 10 minutes so the namenode marked the datanode as dead and started 
replicating its blocks, which caused more disk IO on other nodes and can 
potentially brought them down.

The patch contains two changes:
1. Makes DF asynchronous when monitoring the disk by creating a thread that 
checks the disk and updates the disk status periodically. When the heartbeat 
threads generates storage report, it then reads disk usage information from 
memory so that the heartbeat thread won't get blocked during heavy diskIO. 
2. Makes the checks (which required disk accesses) in transferBlock() in 
DataNode into a separate thread so the heartbeat does not have to wait for this 
when heartbeating.


  was:
During heavy disk IO, we noticed hearbeat thread hangs on checkBlock method, 
which checks the existence and length of a block before spins off a thread to 
do the actual transferring. In extreme cases, the heartbeat thread hang more 
than 10 minutes so the namenode marked the datanode as dead and started 
replicating its blocks, which caused more disk IO on other nodes and can 
potentially brought them down.

The patch contains two changes:
1. Makes DF asynchronous when monitoring the disk by creating a thread that 
checks the disk and updates the disk status periodically. Then the FsVolumeImpl 
reads the values that are collected asynchronously.
2. 



> Move block validation out of the heartbeat thread
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-9901
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9901
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: datanode
>            Reporter: Hua Liu
>            Assignee: Hua Liu
>         Attachments: 
> 0001-HDFS-9901-Move-block-validation-out-of-the-heartbeat.patch
>
>
> During heavy disk IO, we noticed hearbeat thread hangs on checkBlock method, 
> which checks the existence and length of a block before spins off a thread to 
> do the actual transferring. In extreme cases, the heartbeat thread hang more 
> than 10 minutes so the namenode marked the datanode as dead and started 
> replicating its blocks, which caused more disk IO on other nodes and can 
> potentially brought them down.
> The patch contains two changes:
> 1. Makes DF asynchronous when monitoring the disk by creating a thread that 
> checks the disk and updates the disk status periodically. When the heartbeat 
> threads generates storage report, it then reads disk usage information from 
> memory so that the heartbeat thread won't get blocked during heavy diskIO. 
> 2. Makes the checks (which required disk accesses) in transferBlock() in 
> DataNode into a separate thread so the heartbeat does not have to wait for 
> this when heartbeating.



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