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dhruba borthakur updated HDFS-1093: ----------------------------------- Assignee: Dmytro Molkov (was: dhruba borthakur) Component/s: name-node > Improve namenode scalability by splitting the FSNamesystem synchronized > section in a read/write lock > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1093 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1093 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Dmytro Molkov > > Most critical data structures in the NameNode (NN) are protected by a > syncronized methods in the FSNamesystem class. This essentially makes > critical code paths in the NN single-threaded. However, a large percentage of > the NN calls are listStatus, getBlockLocations, etc which do not change > internal data structures at all, these are read-only calls. If we change the > FSNamesystem lock to a read/write lock, many of the above operations can > occur in parallel, thus improving the scalability of the NN. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira