[jira] [Commented] (MAPREDUCE-4892) CombineFileInputFormat node input split can be skewed on small clusters

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Hadoop QA commented on MAPREDUCE-4892:
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{color:green}+1 overall{color}.  Here are the results of testing the latest attachment 
  http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12562000/MAPREDUCE-4892.1.patch
  against trunk revision .

    {color:green}+1 @author{color}.  The patch does not contain any @author tags.

    {color:green}+1 tests included{color}.  The patch appears to include 1 new or modified test files.

    {color:green}+1 javac{color}.  The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.

    {color:green}+1 javadoc{color}.  The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.

    {color:green}+1 eclipse:eclipse{color}.  The patch built with eclipse:eclipse.

    {color:green}+1 findbugs{color}.  The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 1.3.9) warnings.

    {color:green}+1 release audit{color}.  The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.

    {color:green}+1 core tests{color}.  The patch passed unit tests in hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient.

    {color:green}+1 contrib tests{color}.  The patch passed contrib unit tests.

Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-MAPREDUCE-Build/3152//testReport/
Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-MAPREDUCE-Build/3152//console

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> CombineFileInputFormat node input split can be skewed on small clusters
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-4892
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4892
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Bikas Saha
>            Assignee: Bikas Saha
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
>
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-4892.1.patch
>
>
> The CombineFileInputFormat split generation logic tries to group blocks by node in order to create splits. It iterates through the nodes and creates splits on them until there aren't enough blocks left on a node that can be grouped into a valid split. If the first few nodes have a lot of blocks on them then they can end up getting a disproportionately large share of the total number of splits created. This can result in poor locality of maps. This problem is likely to happen on small clusters where its easier to create a skew in the distribution of blocks on nodes.

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