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Vladimir Rodionov commented on HBASE-11425:
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I am quite skeptical to all this idea ... Here is why:

Off heap cache can store blocks in a compressed form. It means that you won't 
be able to back HFileBlock by a such compressed block - you have to decompress 
it first. From performance point of view it does not matter whether you do this 
into direct BB (new approach) or into a byte array-backed BB (existing).

Am I missing anything?  



> Cell/DBB end-to-end on the read-path
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-11425
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11425
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Umbrella
>          Components: regionserver, Scanners
>    Affects Versions: 0.99.0
>            Reporter: Anoop Sam John
>            Assignee: Anoop Sam John
>         Attachments: Offheap reads in HBase using BBs_final.pdf
>
>
> Umbrella jira to make sure we can have blocks cached in offheap backed cache. 
> In the entire read path, we can refer to this offheap buffer and avoid onheap 
> copying.
> The high level items I can identify as of now are
> 1. Avoid the array() call on BB in read path.. (This is there in many 
> classes. We can handle class by class)
> 2. Support Buffer based getter APIs in cell.  In read path we will create a 
> new Cell with backed by BB. Will need in CellComparator, Filter (like SCVF), 
> CPs etc.
> 3. Avoid KeyValue.ensureKeyValue() calls in read path - This make byte copy.
> 4. Remove all CP hooks (which are already deprecated) which deal with KVs.  
> (In read path)
> Will add subtasks under this.



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