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stack reopened HDFS-4184: ------------------------- Here, I reopened it for you (in case you can't) > Add the ability for Client to provide more hint information for DataNode to > manage the OS buffer cache more accurate > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-4184 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4184 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: binlijin > > HDFS now has the ability to use posix_fadvise and sync_data_range syscalls to > manage the OS buffer cache. > {code} > When hbase read hlog the data we can set dfs.datanode.drop.cache.behind.reads > to true to drop data out of the buffer cache when performing sequential reads. > When hbase write hlog we can set dfs.datanode.drop.cache.behind.writes to > true to drop data out of the buffer cache after writing > When hbase read hfile during compaction we can set > dfs.datanode.readahead.bytes to a non-zero value to trigger readahead for > sequential reads. > and so on... > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira