hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/BlockCache.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;

/**
 * Block cache interface. Anything that implements the {@link Cacheable}
 * interface can be put in the cache.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface BlockCache extends Iterable<CachedBlock> {
  /**
   * Add block to cache.
   * @param cacheKey The block's cache key.
   * @param buf The block contents wrapped in a ByteBuffer.
   * @param inMemory Whether block should be treated as in-memory
   * @param cacheDataInL1 If multi-tier block cache deploy -- i.e. has an L1 and L2 tier -- then
   * if this flag is true, cache data blocks up in the L1 tier (meta blocks are probably being
   * cached in L1 already).
   */
  void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf, boolean inMemory, boolean cacheDataInL1);

  /**
   * Add block to cache (defaults to not in-memory).
   * @param cacheKey The block's cache key.
   * @param buf The object to cache.
   */
  void cacheBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, Cacheable buf);

  /**
   * Fetch block from cache.
   * @param cacheKey Block to fetch.
   * @param caching Whether this request has caching enabled (used for stats)
   * @param repeat Whether this is a repeat lookup for the same block
   *        (used to avoid double counting cache misses when doing double-check locking)
   * @param updateCacheMetrics Whether to update cache metrics or not
   * @return Block or null if block is not in 2 cache.
   */
  Cacheable getBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey, boolean caching, boolean repeat,
    boolean updateCacheMetrics);

  /**
   * Evict block from cache.
   * @param cacheKey Block to evict
   * @return true if block existed and was evicted, false if not
   */
  boolean evictBlock(BlockCacheKey cacheKey);

  /**
   * Evicts all blocks for the given HFile.
   *
   * @return the number of blocks evicted
   */
  int evictBlocksByHfileName(String hfileName);

  /**
   * Get the statistics for this block cache.
   * @return Stats
   */
  CacheStats getStats();

  /**
   * Shutdown the cache.
   */
  void shutdown();

  /**
   * Returns the total size of the block cache, in bytes.
   * @return size of cache, in bytes
   */
  long size();

  /**
   * Returns the free size of the block cache, in bytes.
   * @return free space in cache, in bytes
   */
  long getFreeSize();

  /**
   * Returns the occupied size of the block cache, in bytes.
   * @return occupied space in cache, in bytes
   */
  long getCurrentSize();

  /**
   * Returns the number of blocks currently cached in the block cache.
   * @return number of blocks in the cache
   */
  long getBlockCount();

  /**
   * @return Iterator over the blocks in the cache.
   */
  Iterator<CachedBlock> iterator();

  /**
   * @return The list of sub blockcaches that make up this one; returns null if no sub caches.
   */
  BlockCache [] getBlockCaches();
}