Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Invalid
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0.90.0
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Description
I noticed that right now, under a bulkLoadHFiles call to an RS, we grab the HRegion write lock as soon as we determine that it is a multi-family bulk load we'll be attempting. The file copy from the caller's source FS is done after holding the lock.
This doesn't seem right. For instance, we had a recent use-case where the bulk load running cluster is a separate HDFS instance/cluster than the one that runs HBase and the transfers between these FSes can get slower than an intra-cluster transfer. Hence I think we should begin to hold the write lock only after we've got a successful destinationFS copy of the requested file, and thereby allow more write throughput to pass.
Does this sound reasonable to do?