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Sameer Paranjpye updated HADOOP-248:
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    Fix Version: 0.4
                     (was: 0.3)

> locating map outputs via random probing is inefficient
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HADOOP-248
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-248
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: mapred
>     Versions: 0.2.1
>     Reporter: Owen O'Malley
>     Assignee: Owen O'Malley
>      Fix For: 0.4

>
> Currently the ReduceTaskRunner polls the JobTracker for a random list of map 
> tasks asking for their output locations. It would be better if the JobTracker 
> kept an ordered log and the interface was changed to:
> class MapLocationResults {
>    public int getTimestamp();
>    public MapOutputLocation[] getLocations();
> }
> interface InterTrackerProtocol {
>   ...
>   MapLocationResults locateMapOutputs(int prevTimestamp);
> } 
> with the intention that each time a ReduceTaskRunner calls locateMapOutputs, 
> it passes back the "timestamp" that it got from the previous result. That 
> way, reduces can easily find the new MapOutputs. This should help the "ramp 
> up" when the maps first start finishing.

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