From 0c12d633b9797f2cb14246fe020993b2e9123e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chao Sun <sunchao@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:35:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] HDFS-14959: [SBNN read] access time should be turned off
 (#1706) Contributed by Chao Sun.

(cherry picked from commit 97ec34e117af71e1a9950b8002131c45754009c7)
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 .../src/site/markdown/ObserverNameNode.md         | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/ObserverNameNode.md b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/ObserverNameNode.md
index af1569c6d01..2422f8cb011 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/ObserverNameNode.md
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/ObserverNameNode.md
@@ -194,6 +194,21 @@ few configurations to your **hdfs-site.xml**:
           <value>1048576</value>
         </property>
 
+*  **dfs.namenode.accesstime.precision** -- whether to enable access
+   time for HDFS file.
+
+   It is **highly recommended** to disable this configuration. If
+   enabled, this will turn a `getBlockLocations` call into a write call,
+   as it needs to hold write lock to update the time for the opened
+   file. Therefore, the request will fail on all Observer NameNodes and fall
+   back to the active eventually. As result, RPC performance will degrade.
+
+        <property>
+          <name>dfs.namenode.accesstime.precision</name>
+          <value>0</value>
+        </property>
+
+
 ### New administrative command
 
 A new HA admin command is introduced to transition a Standby NameNode