[HDFS-3218] Use multiple remote DN interfaces for block transfer

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: hdfs-client
• Target Version/s: Multiple interfaces (HDFS-3140)
• Assignee: Eli Collins
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 06/Apr/12 17:23
• Updated: 22/Jun/12 05:02

Description

HDFS-3146 and HDFS-3216 expose multiple DN interfaces to the client. In order for clients, in aggregate, to use multiple DN interfaces clients should pick different interfaces when transferring blocks. Given that we cache client <-> DN connections the policy of picking a remote interface at random for each new connection seems best (vs round robin for example). In the future we could make the client congestion aware. We could also establish multiple connections between the client and DN and therefore use multiple interfaces for a single block transfer. Both of those are out of scope for this jira.