Liyin Tang created HBASE-7266:
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             Summary: [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
            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 pread, 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.

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