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Phabricator commented on HBASE-5259: ------------------------------------ Liyin has commented on the revision "[jira][HBASE-5259] Normalize the RegionLocation in TableInputFormat by the reverse DNS lookup.". INLINE COMMENTS src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormatBase.java:202 I don't think so. In your suggestion, you won't have a change to recovery from a transitent DNS look up failure, will you? And also the reverseDNSCacheMap is sopposed to cache the DNS lookup result instead of caching other falt tolerant result. In addition, If your DNS server has some failures, your task tracker and job tracker will be slow down as well. REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.facebook.net/D1413 > Normalize the RegionLocation in TableInputFormat by the reverse DNS lookup. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-5259 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5259 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Liyin Tang > Assignee: Liyin Tang > Attachments: D1413.1.patch, D1413.1.patch, D1413.1.patch, > D1413.1.patch, D1413.2.patch, D1413.2.patch, D1413.2.patch, D1413.2.patch, > D1413.3.patch, D1413.3.patch, D1413.3.patch, D1413.3.patch > > > Assuming the HBase and MapReduce running in the same cluster, the > TableInputFormat is to override the split function which divides all the > regions from one particular table into a series of mapper tasks. So each > mapper task can process a region or one part of a region. Ideally, the mapper > task should run on the same machine on which the region server hosts the > corresponding region. That's the motivation that the TableInputFormat sets > the RegionLocation so that the MapReduce framework can respect the node > locality. > The code simply set the host name of the region server as the > HRegionLocation. However, the host name of the region server may have > different format with the host name of the task tracker (Mapper task). The > task tracker always gets its hostname by the reverse DNS lookup. And the DNS > service may return different host name format. For example, the host name of > the region server is correctly set as a.b.c.d while the reverse DNS lookup > may return a.b.c.d. (With an additional doc in the end). > So the solution is to set the RegionLocation by the reverse DNS lookup as > well. No matter what host name format the DNS system is using, the > TableInputFormat has the responsibility to keep the consistent host name > format with the MapReduce framework. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira