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vinisha commented on HBASE-7266: -------------------------------- Which HBase versions does it affect? > [89-fb] Using pread for non-compaction read request > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-7266 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7266 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Performance > Reporter: Liyin Tang > > There are 2 kinds of read operations in HBase: pread and seek+read. > Pread, positional read, is stateless and create a new connection between the > DFSClient and DataNode for each operation. While seek+read is to seek to a > specific postion and prefetch blocks from data nodes. The benefit of > seek+read is that it will cache the prefetch result but the downside is it is > stateful and needs to synchronized. > So far, both compaction and scan are using seek+read, which caused some > resource contention. So using the pread for the scan request can avoid the > resource contention. In addition, the region server is able to do the > prefetch for the scan request (HBASE-6874) so that it won't be necessary to > let the DFSClient to prefetch the data any more. > I will run through the scan benchmark (with no block cache) with verify the > performance. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)