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Kihwal Lee commented on HDFS-5496:
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I just want to provide a data point regarding the number of blocks to
process/iteration. According to a measurement against a name node with a big
name space, the initialization throughput was a little over 300K blocks/second.
On this machine, the default limit of 10K will be equivalent to about 3.3ms of
write lock duration. There is a pressure to scan all blocks as soon as
possible to avoid data loss by delayed replication, so a higher limit may be
preferred in some situations. But I think it is okay as a default value.
> Make replication queue initialization asynchronous
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> Key: HDFS-5496
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5496
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: namenode
> Reporter: Kihwal Lee
> Assignee: Vinay
> Attachments: HDFS-5496.patch, HDFS-5496.patch
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> Today, initialization of replication queues blocks safe mode exit and certain
> HA state transitions. For a big name space, this can take hundreds of seconds
> with the FSNamesystem write lock held. During this time, important requests
> (e.g. initial block reports, heartbeat, etc) are blocked.
> The effect of delaying the initialization would be not starting replication
> right away, but I think the benefit outweighs. If we make it asynchronous,
> the work per iteration should be limited, so that the lock duration is
> capped.
> If full/incremental block reports and any other requests that modifies block
> state properly performs replication checks while the blocks are scanned and
> the queues populated in background, every block will be processed. (Some may
> be done twice) The replication monitor should run even before all blocks are
> processed.
> This will allow namenode to exit safe mode and start serving immediately even
> with a big name space. It will also reduce the HA failover latency.
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