[HDFS-5177] blocksScheduled count should be decremented for abandoned blocks

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0-beta, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: namenode
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Vinayakumar B
• Reporter: Vinayakumar B
• Created: 10/Sep/13 05:46
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:42
• Resolved: 30/Mar/16 06:36

Description

DatanodeDescriptor#incBlocksScheduled() will be called for all datanodes of the block on each allocation. But same should be decremented for abandoned blocks.

When one of the datanodes is down and same is allocated for the block along with other live datanodes, then this block will be abandoned, but the scheduled count on other datanodes will consider live datanodes as loaded, but in reality these datanodes may not be loaded.

Anyway this scheduled count will be rolled every 20 mins.

Problem will come if the rate of creation of files is more. Due to increase in the scheduled count, there might be chances of missing local datanode to write to. and some times writes also can fail in small clusters.

So we need to decrement the unnecessary count on abandon block call.