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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-9857:
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This is a nice feature. I skimmed the patch, don't see why it's limited to
HFileV3. Can it be made a general feature?
I think it could be smart about loading the blocks, load either sequentially or
over a random distribution until the cache is full. The "until full" part seems
tricky as eviction detection isn't very straight-forward, or at least hasn't
been so thus far in my work on HBASE-9806.
> Blockcache prefetch for HFile V3
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> Key: HBASE-9857
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9857
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: 9857.patch
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> Attached patch implements a prefetching function for HFile (v3) blocks, if
> indicated by a column family or regionserver property. The purpose of this
> change is to as rapidly after region open as reasonable warm the blockcache
> with all the data and index blocks of (presumably also in-memory) table data,
> without counting those block loads as cache misses. Great for fast reads and
> keeping the cache hit ratio high. Can tune the IO impact versus time until
> all data blocks are in cache. Works a bit like CompactSplitThread. Makes some
> effort not to stampede.
> I have been using this for setting up various experiments and thought I'd
> polish it up a bit and throw it out there. If the data to be preloaded will
> not fit in blockcache, or if as a percentage of blockcache it is large, this
> is not a good idea, will just blow out the cache and trigger a lot of useless
> GC activity. Might be useful as an expert tuning option though. Or not.
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