Steve Loughran created HADOOP-13525:
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             Summary: Optimize uses of FS operations in the ASF analysis 
frameworks, 
                 Key: HADOOP-13525
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13525
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: fs, fs/s3
    Affects Versions: 2.7.2
            Reporter: Steve Loughran
            Assignee: Steve Loughran


Review uses of the FS APIs in applications using the Hadoop FS API to access 
filesystems; identify suboptimal uses and tune them for better performance 
against HDFS and object stores

* Assume arbitrary Hadoop 2.x releases: make no changes which are known to make 
operations on older versions of Hadoop slower
* Do propose those changes which deliver speedups in later versions of Hadoop, 
while not impacting older versions, or risk of causing scalability problems.
* Add more tests, especially scalable ones which also display metrics.
* Use standard benchmarks and optimization tools to identify hotspots.
* Use FS behaviour as verified in the FS contract tests as evidence that 
filesystems correctly implement the Hadoop FS APIs. If a use of an API call is 
made which hints at the expectation of different/untested behaviours, leave 
alone and add new tests to the Hadoop FS contract to determine cross-FS 
semantics.
* Focus on the startup, split calculation and directory scanning operations: 
the ones which slow down entire queries.
* Eliminate use of {{isDirectory()}},  {{getLength()}}, {{exists()}} if a 
followon operation ({{getStatus()}},{{delete()}}, ... makes the use redundant.
* Assume that {{FileStatus}} entries are not cached; the cost of creating them 
is 1 RPC call against HDFS, 1+ HTTPS call against object stores.
* Locate calls to the listing operations, identify speedups, especially on 
recursive directory scans.
* Identify suboptimal seek patterns (backwards as well as forwards) and attempt 
to reduce/eliminate through reordering and result caching.
* Try to reuse the results of previous operations (e.g {{FileStatus}} 
instances) in follow-on calls.
* Document best practises identified and implemented.





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