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Andrew Wang commented on HDFS-9924:
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Thanks everyone for the input. It sounds like stack and Zhe would also like a 
branch. Jitendra and Nicholas think that since the TBD callback API will extend 
Future, it'll be compatible in trunk. Based on current downstream input though, 
they don't seem interested in a just-Future API since it doesn't support 
callbacks.

So, are there any technical reasons why the current Future-based code should be 
included in release branches vs. a feature branch? I discussed this in my 
earlier comment, and would be interested in hearing counter arguments.

> [umbrella] Asynchronous HDFS Access
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-9924
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9924
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: fs
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze
>            Assignee: Xiaobing Zhou
>         Attachments: AsyncHdfs20160510.pdf
>
>
> This is an umbrella JIRA for supporting Asynchronous HDFS Access.
> Currently, all the API methods are blocking calls -- the caller is blocked 
> until the method returns.  It is very slow if a client makes a large number 
> of independent calls in a single thread since each call has to wait until the 
> previous call is finished.  It is inefficient if a client needs to create a 
> large number of threads to invoke the calls.
> We propose adding a new API to support asynchronous calls, i.e. the caller is 
> not blocked.  The methods in the new API immediately return a Java Future 
> object.  The return value can be obtained by the usual Future.get() method.



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