[HDFS-9090] Write hot data on few nodes may cause performance issue

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: He Tianyi
• Reporter: He Tianyi
• Created: 16/Sep/15 09:30
• Updated: 17/Jul/18 09:38

Description

(I am not sure whether this should be reported as BUG, feel free to modify this)

Current block placement policy makes best effort to guarantee first replica on local node whenever possible.

Consider the following scenario:
1. There are 500 datanodes across plenty of racks,
2. Raw user action log (just an example) are being written only on 10 nodes, which also have datanode deployed locally,
3. Then, before any balance, all these logs will have at least one replica in 10 nodes, implying one thirds data read on these log will be served by these 10 nodes if repl factor is 3, performance suffers.

I propose to solve this scenario by introducing a configuration entry for client to disable arbitrary level of write locality.
Then we can either (A) add local nodes to excludedNodes, or (B) tell NameNode the locality we prefer.

Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-13739 Add option to disable rack local write preference