Bryan Beaudreault created HDFS-16155:
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Summary: Allow configurable exponential backoff in DFSInputStream
refetchLocations
Key: HDFS-16155
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-16155
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: dfsclient
Reporter: Bryan Beaudreault
The retry policy in
[DFSInputStream#refetchLocations|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSInputStream.java#L1018-L1040]
was first written many years ago. It allows configuration of the base time
window, but subsequent retries double in an un-configurable way. This retry
strategy makes sense in some clusters as it's very conservative and will avoid
DDOSing the namenode in certain systemic failure modes – for example, if a
file is being read by a large hadoop job and the underlying blocks are moved by
the balancer. In this case, enough datanodes would be added to the deadNodes
list and all hadoop tasks would simultaneously try to refetch the blocks. The
3s doubling with random factor helps break up that stampeding herd.
However, not all cluster use-cases are created equal, so there are other cases
where a more aggressive initial backoff is preferred. For example in a
low-latency single reader scenario. In this case, if the balancer moves enough
blocks, the reader hits this 3s backoff which is way too long for a low latency
use-case.
One could configure the the window very low (10ms), but then you can hit other
systemic failure modes which would result in readers DDOSing the namenode
again. For example, if blocks went missing due to truly dead datanodes. In this
case, many readers might be refetching locations for different files with retry
backoffs like 10ms, 20ms, 40ms, etc. It takes a while to backoff enough to
avoid impacting the namenode with that strategy.
I suggest adding a configurable multiplier to the backoff strategy so that
operators can tune this as they see fit for their use-case. In the above low
latency case, one could set the base very low (say 2ms) and the multiplier very
high (say 50). This gives an aggressive first retry that very quickly backs off.
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