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Liyin Tang commented on HBASE-4433:
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Hi Lars, the jira Kannan mentioned is [HBASE-5987] HFileBlockIndex
improvements. By looking ahead at the next indexed key, HBase internal reader
knows whether to keep scanning the current DataBlock or look up the index. This
feature avoids additional index lookup overhead when multiple requests are
sequentially scanning the HFile data block.
Actually, we have a list of jiras in our FB internal HBase release. Do you know
a proper place we could share these work with more hbase-dev ?
> avoid extra next (potentially a seek) if done with column/row
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>
> Key: HBASE-4433
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4433
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Kannan Muthukkaruppan
> Assignee: Kannan Muthukkaruppan
> Fix For: 0.92.0
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>
> [Noticed this in 89, but quite likely true of trunk as well.]
> When we are done with the requested column(s) the code still does an extra
> next() call before it realizes that it is actually done. This extra next()
> call could potentially result in an unnecessary extra block load. This is
> likely to be especially bad for CFs where the KVs are large blobs where each
> KV may be occupying a block of its own. So the next() can often load a new
> unrelated block unnecessarily.
> --
> For the simple case of reading say the top-most column in a row in a single
> file, where each column (KV) was say a block of its own-- it seems that we
> are reading 3 blocks, instead of 1 block!
> I am working on a simple patch and with that the number of seeks is down to
> 2.
> [There is still an extra seek left. I think there were two levels of
> extra/unnecessary next() we were doing without actually confirming that the
> next was needed. One at the StoreScanner/ScanQueryMatcher level which this
> diff avoids. I think the other is at hfs.next() (at the storefile scanner
> level) that's happening whenever a HFile scanner servers out a data-- and
> perhaps that's the additional seek that we need to avoid. But I want to
> tackle this optimization first as the two issues seem unrelated.]
> --
> The basic idea of the patch I am working on/testing is as follows. The
> ExplicitColumnTracker currently returns "INCLUDE" to the ScanQueryMatcher if
> the KV needs to be included and then if done, only in the the next call it
> returns the appropriate SEEK_NEXT_COL or SEEK_NEXT_ROW hint. For the cases
> when ExplicitColumnTracker knows it is done with a particular column/row, the
> patch attempts to combine the INCLUDE code and done hint into a single match
> code-- INCLUDE_AND_SEEK_NEXT_COL and INCLUDE_AND_SEEK_NEXT_ROW.
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