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Andrew Wang commented on HDFS-9924:
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I'd like to keep pushing on this, since as stated previously, we have more than
a few committers who've already asked for this to be on a feature branch. Given
that the alternative of using a threadpool seems quite acceptable for users who
simply want some parallelism and not callbacks, I'm still searching for a
technical argument for a Future-based API.
If there are no further comments by EOD tomorrow, I'd like to go ahead and move
the commits to the feature branch.
> [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
> Attachments: AsyncHdfs20160510.pdf
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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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