[HBASE-17194] Assign the new region to the idle server after splitting

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Chia-Ping Tsai
• Reporter: Chia-Ping Tsai
• Created: 29/Nov/16 17:36
• Updated: 03/Dec/16 00:49
• Resolved: 02/Dec/16 19:36

Description

The new regions are assigned to the random servers after splitting, but there always are some idle servers which don’t be assigned any regions on the new cluster. It is a bad start of load balance, hence we should give priority to the idle servers for assignment.