Dynamic add input for one job ----------------------------- Key: MAPREDUCE-1434 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1434 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: New Feature Environment: 0.19.0 Reporter: Xing Shi
Always we should firstly upload the data to hdfs, then we can analize the data using hadoop mapreduce. Sometimes, the upload process takes long time. So if we can add input during one job, the time can be saved. WHAT? Client: a) hadoop job -add-input jobId inputFormat ... Add the input to jobid b) hadoop job -add-input done Tell the JobTracker, the input has been prepared over. c) hadoop job -add-input status jobid Show how many input the jobid has. HOWTO? Mainly, I think we should do three things: 1. JobClinet: here JobClient should support add input to a job, indeed, JobClient generate the split, and submit to JobTracker. 2. JobTracker: JobTracker support addInput, and add the new tasks to the original mapTasks. Because the uploaded data will be processed quickly, so it also should update the scheduler to support pending a map task till Client tells the Job input done. 3. Reducer: the reducer should also update the mapNums, so it will shuffle right. This is the rough idea, and I will update it . -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.