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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-9717: ---------------------------------------- a byte is fairly compact and would let you track some multi-retry problems if you are packet sampling; client just needs to stop incrementing once it is at 0xff. > Add retry flag/retry attempt count to the RPC requests > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-9717 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9717 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > > RetryCache lookup on server side implementation can be optimized if Rpc > request indicates if the request is being retried. This jira proposes adding > an optional field to Rpc request that indicates if request is being retried. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira