[HADOOP-12878] Impersonate hosts in s3a for better data locality handling

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: fs/s3
• Target Version/s: 3.5.0
• Assignee: Thomas Demoor
• Reporter: Thomas Demoor
• Created: 03/Mar/16 13:38
• Updated: 03/Dec/24 13:39

Description

Currently, localhost is passed as locality for each block, causing all blocks involved in job to initially target the same node (RM), before being moved by the scheduler (to a rack-local node). This reduces parallelism for jobs (with short-lived mappers).

We should mimic Azures implementation: a config setting fs.s3a.block.location.impersonatedhost where the user can enter the list of hostnames in the cluster to return to getFileBlockLocations.

Possible optimization: for larger systems, it might be better to return N (5?) random hostnames to prevent passing a huge array (the downstream code assumes size = O(3)).

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-14943 Add common getFileBlockLocations() emulation for object stores, including S3A