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dhruba borthakur reassigned HDFS-1093:
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Assignee: dhruba borthakur (was: Dmytro Molkov)
> Improve namenode scalability by splitting the FSNamesystem synchronized
> section in a read/write lock
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> 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: dhruba borthakur
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> 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.
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