[GIRAPH-262] Netty optimization to handle requests locally whenever possible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Avery Ching
• Reporter: Avery Ching
• Created: 17/Jul/12 07:26
• Updated: 08/Aug/12 21:25
• Resolved: 07/Aug/12 19:57

Description

Adds optimization to handle requests locally when possible rather than go over the network

(Original description follows below: see related JIRAs for each item besides the above)

• Makes netty the default instead of HadoopRPC
• Added optimization to handle requests locally when possible rather than go over the network
• Added TimedLogger to print only within a given time period
• Added optimization for using multiple channels between clients/servers when bandwidth is limited per connection
• Added ByteCounter to track bandwidth across Netty (can be later integrated with GIRAPH-232).
• Upgraded rat to 0.8 and excluded iml files (Intellij Idea)

Issue Links

• incorporates: GIRAPH-289 Add thread and channel pooling to NettyClient and NettyServer
• is related to: GIRAPH-211 Add secure authentication to Netty IPC
• is related to: GIRAPH-281 add options to control Netty's per-channel receive and send buffer sizes
• is related to: GIRAPH-280 add IntelliJ-generated *.iml and *.ipr files to Apache Rat's <exclude> list.
• relates to: GIRAPH-288 Bandwidth tracking - subset of GIRAPH-262
• relates to: GIRAPH-211 Add secure authentication to Netty IPC
• relates to: GIRAPH-282 Make netty the default RPC transport