high multiput latency due to checking global mem store size in a synchronized 
function
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                 Key: HBASE-3694
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3694
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Liyin Tang
            Assignee: Liyin Tang


The problem is we found the multiput latency is very high.
In our case, we have almost 22 Regions in each RS and there are no flush 
happened during these puts.

After investigation, we believe that the root cause is the function 
getGlobalMemStoreSize, which is to check the high water mark of mem store. 
This function takes almost 40% of total execution time of multiput when 
instrumenting some metrics in the code.  
The actual percentage may be more higher. The execution time is spent on 
synchronize contention.

One solution is to keep a static var in HRegion to keep the global MemStore 
size instead of calculating them every time.
Why using static variable?
Since all the HRegion objects in the same JVM share the same memory heap, they 
need to share fate as well.
The static variable, globalMemStroeSize, naturally shows the total mem usage in 
this shared memory heap for this JVM.
If multiple RS need to run in the same JVM, they still need only one 
globalMemStroeSize.
If multiple RS run on different JVMs, everything is fine.

After changing, in our cases, the avg multiput latency decrease from 60ms to 
10ms.

I will submit a patch based on the current trunk.





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