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Duo Zhang commented on HBASE-21879:
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Talked with [~openinx] offline, we think the current framework for doing
reference counting is not good enough to deal with the problem, and it is easy
to be misused...
First we planned to use netty's ByteBuf directly but later we found that we
expose the ByteBuff in CP(The codec interface), so we need to implement the
reference counting by our own, as it is not a good idea to expose a netty data
structure to our users.
For me, I think the final goal is to unify all the reference counting stuffs,
i.e, we do not need the RpcCallback.shipped anymore, just a call to
ByteBuff.release in the rpc framework.
> Read HFile's block to ByteBuffer directly instead of to byte for reducing
> young gc purpose
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-21879
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21879
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Zheng Hu
> Assignee: Zheng Hu
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.1.4
>
> Attachments: QPS-latencies-before-HBASE-21879.png,
> gc-data-before-HBASE-21879.png
>
>
> In HFileBlock#readBlockDataInternal, we have the following:
> {code}
> @VisibleForTesting
> protected HFileBlock readBlockDataInternal(FSDataInputStream is, long offset,
> long onDiskSizeWithHeaderL, boolean pread, boolean verifyChecksum,
> boolean updateMetrics)
> throws IOException {
> // .....
> // TODO: Make this ByteBuffer-based. Will make it easier to go to HDFS with
> BBPool (offheap).
> byte [] onDiskBlock = new byte[onDiskSizeWithHeader + hdrSize];
> int nextBlockOnDiskSize = readAtOffset(is, onDiskBlock, preReadHeaderSize,
> onDiskSizeWithHeader - preReadHeaderSize, true, offset +
> preReadHeaderSize, pread);
> if (headerBuf != null) {
> // ...
> }
> // ...
> }
> {code}
> In the read path, we still read the block from hfile to on-heap byte[], then
> copy the on-heap byte[] to offheap bucket cache asynchronously, and in my
> 100% get performance test, I also observed some frequent young gc, The
> largest memory footprint in the young gen should be the on-heap block byte[].
> In fact, we can read HFile's block to ByteBuffer directly instead of to
> byte[] for reducing young gc purpose. we did not implement this before,
> because no ByteBuffer reading interface in the older HDFS client, but 2.7+
> has supported this now, so we can fix this now. I think.
> Will provide an patch and some perf-comparison for this.
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