This patch adds an operator called repartition with more straightforward
semantics than the current `coalesce` operator. There are a few use cases
where this operator is useful:
1. If a user wants to increase the number of partitions in the RDD. This
is more common now with streaming. E.g. a user is ingesting data on one
node but they want to add more partitions to ensure parallelism of
subsequent operations across threads or the cluster.
Right now they have to call rdd.coalesce(numSplits, shuffle=true) - that's
super confusing.
2. If a user has input data where the number of partitions is not known. E.g.
> sc.textFile("some file").coalesce(50)....
This is both vague semantically (am I growing or shrinking this RDD) but also,
may not work correctly if the base RDD has fewer than 50 partitions.
The new operator forces shuffles every time, so it will always produce exactly
the number of new partitions. It also throws an exception rather than silently
not-working if a bad input is passed.
I am currently adding streaming tests (requires refactoring some of the test
suite to allow testing at partition granularity), so this is not ready for
merge yet. But feedback is welcome.
Show "GETTING_RESULTS" state in UI.
This commit adds a set of calls using the SparkListener interface
that indicate when a task is remotely fetching results, so that
we can display this (potentially time-consuming) phase of execution
to users through the UI.
This should fix SPARK-902, an issue where some
Java API Function classes could cause
AbstractMethodErrors when user code is compiled
using the Eclipse compiler.
Thanks to @MartinWeindel for diagnosing this
problem.
(This PR subsumes / closes#30)
This patch fixes a bug where the Spark UI didn't display the correct number of total
tasks if the number of tasks in a Stage doesn't equal the number of RDD partitions.
It also cleans up the listener API a bit by embedding this information in the
StageInfo class rather than passing it seperately.
Split MapOutputTracker into Master/Worker classes
Previously, MapOutputTracker contained fields and methods that were only applicable to the master or worker instances. This commit introduces a MasterMapOutputTracker class to prevent the master-specific methods from being accessed on workers.
I also renamed a few methods and made others protected/private.
This commit adds a set of calls using the SparkListener interface
that indicate when a task is remotely fetching results, so that
we can display this (potentially time-consuming) phase of execution
to users through the UI.
Made the following traits/interfaces/classes non-public:
Made the following traits/interfaces/classes non-public:
SparkHadoopWriter
SparkHadoopMapRedUtil
SparkHadoopMapReduceUtil
SparkHadoopUtil
PythonAccumulatorParam
BlockManagerSlaveActor
Provide Instrumentation for Shuffle Write Performance
Shuffle write performance can have a major impact on the performance of jobs. This patch adds a few pieces of instrumentation related to shuffle writes. They are:
1. A listing of the time spent performing blocking writes for each task. This is implemented by keeping track of the aggregate delay seen by many individual writes.
2. An undocumented option `spark.shuffle.sync` which forces shuffle data to sync to disk. This is necessary for measuring shuffle performance in the absence of the OS buffer cache.
3. An internal utility which micro-benchmarks write throughput for simulated shuffle outputs.
I'm going to do some performance testing on this to see whether these small timing calls add overhead. From a feature perspective, however, I consider this complete. Any feedback is appreciated.
Don't setup the uncaught exception handler in local mode.
This avoids unit test failures for Spark streaming.
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task org.apache.spark.streaming.JobManager$JobHandler@38cf728d rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@3b69a41e[Terminated, pool size = 0, active threads = 0, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 14]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$AbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:2048)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:821)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1372)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.JobManager.runJob(JobManager.scala:54)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.Scheduler$$anonfun$generateJobs$2.apply(Scheduler.scala:108)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.Scheduler$$anonfun$generateJobs$2.apply(Scheduler.scala:108)
at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:60)
at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.Scheduler.generateJobs(Scheduler.scala:108)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.Scheduler$$anonfun$1.apply$mcVJ$sp(Scheduler.scala:41)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.util.RecurringTimer.org$apache$spark$streaming$util$RecurringTimer$$loop(RecurringTimer.scala:66)
at org.apache.spark.streaming.util.RecurringTimer$$anon$1.run(RecurringTimer.scala:34)
Code de-duplication in BlockManager
The BlockManager has a few methods that duplicate most of their code. This pull request extracts the duplicated code into private doPut(), doGetLocal(), and doGetRemote() methods that unify the storing/reading of bytes or objects.
I believe that I preserved the logic of the original code, but I'd appreciate some help in reviewing this.
The Spark shuffle phase can produce a large number of files, as one file is created
per mapper per reducer. For large or repeated jobs, this often produces millions of
shuffle files, which sees extremely degredaded performance from the OS file system.
This patch seeks to reduce that burden by combining multipe shuffle files into one.
This PR draws upon the work of Jason Dai in https://github.com/mesos/spark/pull/669.
However, it simplifies the design in order to get the majority of the gain with less
overall intellectual and code burden. The vast majority of code in this pull request
is a refactor to allow the insertion of a clean layer of indirection between logical
block ids and physical files. This, I feel, provides some design clarity in addition
to enabling shuffle file consolidation.
The main goal is to produce one shuffle file per reducer per active mapper thread.
This allows us to isolate the mappers (simplifying the failure modes), while still
allowing us to reduce the number of mappers tremendously for large tasks. In order
to accomplish this, we simply create a new set of shuffle files for every parallel
task, and return the files to a pool which will be given out to the next run task.
The main goal of this refactor was to allow the interposition of a new layer which
maps logical BlockIds to physical locations other than a file with the same name
as the BlockId. In particular, BlockIds will need to be mappable to chunks of files,
as multiple will be stored in the same file.
In order to accomplish this, the following changes have been made:
- Creation of DiskBlockManager, which manages the association of logical BlockIds
to physical disk locations (called FileSegments). By default, Blocks are simply
mapped to physical files of the same name, as before.
- The DiskStore now indirects all requests for a given BlockId through the DiskBlockManager
in order to resolve the actual File location.
- DiskBlockObjectWriter has been merged into BlockObjectWriter.
- The Netty PathResolver has been changed to map BlockIds into FileSegments, as this
codepath is the only one that uses Netty, and that is likely to remain the case.
Overall, I think this refactor produces a clearer division between the logical Block
paradigm and their physical on-disk location. There is now an explicit (and documented)
mapping from one to the other.
Previously, MapOutputTracker contained fields and methods that
were only applicable to the master or worker instances. This
commit introduces a MasterMapOutputTracker class to prevent
the master-specific methods from being accessed on workers.
I also renamed a few methods and made others protected/private.
Job cancellation via job group id.
This PR adds a simple API to group together a set of jobs belonging to a thread and threads spawned from it. It also allows the cancellation of all jobs in this group.
An example:
sc.setJobDescription("this_is_the_group_id", "some job description")
sc.parallelize(1 to 10000, 2).map { i => Thread.sleep(10); i }.count()
In a separate thread:
sc.cancelJobGroup("this_is_the_group_id")
Faster and stable/reliable broadcast
HttpBroadcast is noticeably slow, but the alternatives (TreeBroadcast or BitTorrentBroadcast) are notoriously unreliable. The main problem with them is they try to manage the memory for the pieces of a broadcast themselves. Right now, the BroadcastManager does not know which machines the tasks reading from a broadcast variable is running and when they have finished. Consequently, we try to guess and often guess wrong, which blows up the memory usage and kills/hangs jobs.
This very simple implementation solves the problem by not trying to manage the intermediate pieces; instead, it offloads that duty to the BlockManager which is quite good at juggling blocks. Otherwise, it is very similar to the BitTorrentBroadcast implementation (without fancy optimizations). And it runs much faster than HttpBroadcast we have right now.
I've been using this for another project for last couple of weeks, and just today did some benchmarking against the Http one. The following shows the improvements for increasing broadcast size for cold runs. Each line represent the number of receivers.
After the first broadcast is over, i.e., after JVM is wormed up and for HttpBroadcast the server is already running (I think), the following are the improvements for warm runs.
The curves are not as nice as the cold runs, but the improvements are obvious, specially for larger broadcasts and more receivers.
Depending on how it goes, we should deprecate and/or remove old TreeBroadcast and BitTorrentBroadcast implementations, and hopefully, SPARK-889 will not be necessary any more.
