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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-15073: -------------------------------- With DEBUG logging on, I observed interleaving region splitting / merge operations. e.g. {code} 2016-01-20 13:09:48,432 INFO [perf-a-2.c.pramod-thangali.internal,61300,1453265375538_ChoreService_1] normalizer.SplitNormalizationPlan: Executing splitting normalization plan: SplitNormalizationPlan{regionInfo={ENCODED => be05e5ebc6d4c10a1df4846c654bb047, NAME => 'METRIC_RECORD,bytes_out\x00perf-b-5.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01R#\xD8\x7F8HOST,1453267789291.be05e5ebc6d4c10a1df4846c654bb047.', STARTKEY => 'bytes_out\x00perf-b-5.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01R#\xD8\x7F8HOST', ENDKEY => 'cpu_intr\x00perf-c-386.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01RU\xBD;yHOST'}, splitPoint=null} ... 2016-01-20 13:19:48,437 INFO [perf-a-2.c.pramod-thangali.internal,61300,1453265375538_ChoreService_1] normalizer.MergeNormalizationPlan: Executing merging normalization plan: MergeNormalizationPlan{firstRegion={ENCODED => 0115dfae93a4974e09cea8acaa62e69b, NAME => 'METRIC_RECORD,regionserver.Server.FlushTime_num_ops\x00perf-c-477.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01R&A\xF3dhbase,1452432082120.0115dfae93a4974e09cea8acaa62e69b.', STARTKEY => 'regionserver.Server.FlushTime_num_ops\x00perf-c-477.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01R&A\xF3dhbase', ENDKEY => 'regionserver.Server.Mutate_min\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'}, secondRegion={ENCODED => be8228be1ed0cb686bbc5d6958c5c2f1, NAME => 'METRIC_RECORD,regionserver.Server.Mutate_min\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00,1452372244525.be8228be1ed0cb686bbc5d6958c5c2f1.', STARTKEY => 'regionserver.Server.Mutate_min\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00', ENDKEY => 'regionserver.Server.blockedRequestCount\x00perf-c-48.c.pramod-thangali.internal\x00\x00\x00\x01R!%\xA8=hbase'}} {code} So far the number of regions for METRIC_RECORD table is stable at 38 regions. > Finer grained control over normalization actions for RegionNormalizer > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-15073 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15073 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Task > Components: regionserver > Reporter: Ted Yu > Assignee: Ted Yu > Attachments: 15073-v1.txt, 15073-v2.txt, 15073-v2.txt, 15073-v3.txt, > 15073-v4.txt, 15073-v5.txt > > > Currently both region split and merge actions are carried out during > normalization for underlying table. > However, for certain use case(s) (see > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13103?focusedCommentId=14366255&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14366255), > it would be desirable to perform only one type of action. > There is one boolean flag, keyed by NORMALIZATION_ENABLED_KEY, per table that > enables normalization. > To provide finer grained control, we have several options: > 1. introduce another per table flag to indicate which type(s) of actions are > allowed ("N" for disabled, "S" for split only, "M" for merge only and "MS" > for both split and merge) > 2. introduce another global flag to indicate which type(s) of actions are > allowed > 3. modify the meaning of existing flag keyed by NORMALIZATION_ENABLED_KEY so > that it indicates type(s) of actions -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)