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Arun Suresh commented on HDFS-7858:
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[~arpitagarwal], apologize for sitting on this...
I was trying to refactor this as per [~jingzhao]'s suggestion (replacing
RetryInvocationHandler with RequestHedgingInvocationHandler). Unfortunately, it
was turning out to be a more far reaching impact (technically request hedging
is different from retry.. so the whole policy framework etc. would need to be
refactored)
If everyone is ok with the current approach, we can punt the larger refactoring
to another JIRA and I can incorporate [~arpitagarwal]'s suggestion (skip
standby for subsequent requests) and provide a quick patch.
> Improve HA Namenode Failover detection on the client
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> Key: HDFS-7858
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7858
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Arun Suresh
> Assignee: Arun Suresh
> Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
> Attachments: HDFS-7858.1.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch, HDFS-7858.2.patch,
> HDFS-7858.3.patch
>
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> In an HA deployment, Clients are configured with the hostnames of both the
> Active and Standby Namenodes.Clients will first try one of the NNs
> (non-deterministically) and if its a standby NN, then it will respond to the
> client to retry the request on the other Namenode.
> If the client happens to talks to the Standby first, and the standby is
> undergoing some GC / is busy, then those clients might not get a response
> soon enough to try the other NN.
> Proposed Approach to solve this :
> 1) Since Zookeeper is already used as the failover controller, the clients
> could talk to ZK and find out which is the active namenode before contacting
> it.
> 2) Long-lived DFSClients would have a ZK watch configured which fires when
> there is a failover so they do not have to query ZK everytime to find out the
> active NN
> 2) Clients can also cache the last active NN in the user's home directory
> (~/.lastNN) so that short-lived clients can try that Namenode first before
> querying ZK
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