Ah, I see - thanks for clarifying. john From: Chris Nauroth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HDFS short-circuit reads
Both of these methods return the same underlying data type that you're ultimately interested in. This is the BlockLocation object, which contains the hosts that have a replica of the block. Depending on your usage pattern, one of these methods might be more convenient than the other. If your application's input is a single file, then you'll likely find that getFileBlockLocations is a good fit. This will give you the BlockLocation information for that one file, and you won't need to write extra code to pull it out of the RemoteIterator (which you know is only going to contain one result anyway). If your application's input is a whole directory, and you then process all files within that directory, then you'll likely find listLocatedStatus to be more convenient. You'll be able to make a single RPC call to get all of the BlockLocation information for all files. (Like you said, one call instead of many.) Chris Nauroth Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/ On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:39 AM, John Lilley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks! I do call FileSytem.getFileBlockLocations() now to map tasks to local data blocks; is there any advantage to using listLocatedStatus() instead? I guess one call instead of two... John From: Chris Nauroth [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:07 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: HDFS short-circuit reads Hello John, Short-circuit reads are not on by default. The documentation page you linked to at hadoop.apache.org<http://hadoop.apache.org/> contains all of the information you need to enable them though. Regarding checking status of short-circuit read programmatically, here are a few thoughts on this: Your application could check Configuration for the dfs.client.read.shortcircuit key. This will tell you at a high level if the feature is enabled. However, note that the feature needs to be turned on in configuration for both the DataNode and the HDFS client process. Depending on the details of the deployment, the DataNode and the client might be using different configuration files. This tells you if the feature is enabled, but it doesn't necessarily tell you if you're really going to get short-circuit reads when you open the file. There might not be a local replica for the block, in which case the read would fall back to the typical remote read behavior anyway. Depending on what your application wants to achieve, you might also be interested in looking at the FileSystem.listLocatedStatus API to query information about blocks and the corresponding locations of replicas. Applications like MapReduce use this information to try to schedule their work for optimal locality. Short-circuit reads then become a further optimization on top of the gains already achieved by locality. Hope this helps, Chris Nauroth Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/ On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:21 PM, John Lilley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Our YARN application would benefit from maximal bandwidth on HDFS reads. But I'm unclear on how short-circuit reads are enabled. Are they on by default? Can our application check programmatically to see if the short-circuit read is enabled? Thanks, john RE: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/ShortCircuitLocalReads.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-347 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
