[HDFS-15634] Invalidate block on decommissioning DataNode after replication

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: hdfs
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Fengnan Li
• Reporter: Fengnan Li
• Created: 15/Oct/20 18:52
• Updated: 16/Oct/20 22:07

Description

Right now when a DataNode starts decommission, Namenode will mark it as decommissioning and its blocks will be replicated over to different DataNodes, then marked as decommissioned. These blocks are not touched since they are not counted as live replicas.

Proposal: Invalidate these blocks once they are replicated and there are enough live replicas in the cluster.

Reason: A recent shutdown of decommissioned datanodes to finished the flow caused Namenode latency spike since namenode needs to remove all of the blocks from its memory and this step requires holding write lock. If we have gradually invalidated these blocks the deletion will be much easier and faster.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2388