[HBASE-2245] Unnecessary call to syncWal(region); in HRegionServer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Labels: performance
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Benoit Sigoure
• Reporter: Benoit Sigoure
• Created: 22/Feb/10 07:49
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:44
• Resolved: 01/Mar/10 23:38

Description

Some methods unconditionally call syncWal on the region even though the operation specifically asks to not use the WAL.

The most obvious example is in incrementColumnValue where, regardless of the value of the argument writeToWAL, we always call syncWal(region);.