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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-918:
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> because we want to push as many parallel reads from our clients down into 
> Datanode 

Which part of HBase are you referring to here? I can understand that HBase can 
use pread to read the contents of a file but am not able to understand why the 
same file be read by multiple region servers at the same time.

> Use single Selector and small thread pool to replace many instances of 
> BlockSender for reads
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-918
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-918
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: data-node
>            Reporter: Jay Booth
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: hdfs-918-20100201.patch, hdfs-918-20100203.patch, 
> hdfs-multiplex.patch
>
>
> Currently, on read requests, the DataXCeiver server allocates a new thread 
> per request, which must allocate its own buffers and leads to 
> higher-than-optimal CPU and memory usage by the sending threads.  If we had a 
> single selector and a small threadpool to multiplex request packets, we could 
> theoretically achieve higher performance while taking up fewer resources and 
> leaving more CPU on datanodes available for mapred, hbase or whatever.  This 
> can be done without changing any wire protocols.

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