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Vinay commented on HDFS-5496: ----------------------------- Hi Jing, I think that would work. With that change, multiple initializations will not happen in Non-HA mode. In HA setup, if the safemode is in extenstion after calling {{initializeReplQueues()}} by the time of {{startActiveServices()}}, re-initialization will be called. Now my only question is, at this time, do we need to restart initialization or continue if any ongoing initialization..? I feel its ok to continue. Any thoughts..? > Make replication queue initialization asynchronous > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-5496 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5496 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: namenode > Reporter: Kihwal Lee > Assignee: Vinay > Attachments: HDFS-5496.patch, HDFS-5496.patch > > > Today, initialization of replication queues blocks safe mode exit and certain > HA state transitions. For a big name space, this can take hundreds of seconds > with the FSNamesystem write lock held. During this time, important requests > (e.g. initial block reports, heartbeat, etc) are blocked. > The effect of delaying the initialization would be not starting replication > right away, but I think the benefit outweighs. If we make it asynchronous, > the work per iteration should be limited, so that the lock duration is > capped. > If full/incremental block reports and any other requests that modifies block > state properly performs replication checks while the blocks are scanned and > the queues populated in background, every block will be processed. (Some may > be done twice) The replication monitor should run even before all blocks are > processed. > This will allow namenode to exit safe mode and start serving immediately even > with a big name space. It will also reduce the HA failover latency. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)