[HBASE-15180] Reduce garbage created while reading Cells from Codec Decoder

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Anoop Sam John
• Reporter: Anoop Sam John
• Created: 27/Jan/16 12:29
• Updated: 01/Jul/22 21:32
• Resolved: 11/Mar/16 09:48

Description

In KeyValueDecoder#parseCell (Default Codec decoder) we use KeyValueUtil#iscreate to read cells from the InputStream. Here we 1st create a byte[] of length 4 and read the cell length and then an array of Cell's length and read in cell bytes into it and create a KV.
Actually in server we read the reqs into a byte[] and CellScanner is created on top of a ByteArrayInputStream on top of this. By default in write path, we have MSLAB usage ON. So while adding Cells to memstore, we will copy the Cell bytes to MSLAB memory chunks (default 2 MB size) and recreate Cells over that bytes. So there is no issue if we create Cells over the RPC read byte[] directly here in Decoder. No need for 2 byte[] creation and copy for every Cell in request.

My plan is to make a Cell aware ByteArrayInputStream which can read Cells directly from it.

Same Codec path is used in client side also. There better we can avoid this direct Cell create and continue to do the copy to smaller byte[]s path. Plan to introduce some thing like a CodecContext associated with every Codec instance which can say the server/client context.

Issue Links

• requires: HBASE-15198 RPC client not using Codec and CellBlock for puts by default