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## What changes were proposed in this pull request? This PR refactors `ShuffleMapStage` and `MapOutputTracker` in order to simplify the management of `MapStatuses`, reduce driver memory consumption, and remove a potential source of scheduler correctness bugs. ### Background In Spark there are currently two places where MapStatuses are tracked: - The `MapOutputTracker` maintains an `Array[MapStatus]` storing a single location for each map output. This mapping is used by the `DAGScheduler` for determining reduce-task locality preferences (when locality-aware reduce task scheduling is enabled) and is also used to serve map output locations to executors / tasks. - Each `ShuffleMapStage` also contains a mapping of `Array[List[MapStatus]]` which holds the complete set of locations where each map output could be available. This mapping is used to determine which map tasks need to be run when constructing `TaskSets` for the stage. This duplication adds complexity and creates the potential for certain types of correctness bugs. Bad things can happen if these two copies of the map output locations get out of sync. For instance, if the `MapOutputTracker` is missing locations for a map output but `ShuffleMapStage` believes that locations are available then tasks will fail with `MetadataFetchFailedException` but `ShuffleMapStage` will not be updated to reflect the missing map outputs, leading to situations where the stage will be reattempted (because downstream stages experienced fetch failures) but no task sets will be launched (because `ShuffleMapStage` thinks all maps are available). I observed this behavior in a real-world deployment. I'm still not quite sure how the state got out of sync in the first place, but we can completely avoid this class of bug if we eliminate the duplicate state. ### Why we only need to track a single location for each map output I think that storing an `Array[List[MapStatus]]` in `ShuffleMapStage` is unnecessary. First, note that this adds memory/object bloat to the driver we need one extra `List` per task. If you have millions of tasks across all stages then this can add up to be a significant amount of resources. Secondly, I believe that it's extremely uncommon that these lists will ever contain more than one entry. It's not impossible, but is very unlikely given the conditions which must occur for that to happen: - In normal operation (no task failures) we'll only run each task once and thus will have at most one output. - If speculation is enabled then it's possible that we'll have multiple attempts of a task. The TaskSetManager will [kill duplicate attempts of a task]( |
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Apache Spark
Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.
Online Documentation
You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project web page. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.
Building Spark
Spark is built using Apache Maven. To build Spark and its example programs, run:
build/mvn -DskipTests clean package
(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.)
You can build Spark using more than one thread by using the -T option with Maven, see "Parallel builds in Maven 3". More detailed documentation is available from the project site, at "Building Spark".
For general development tips, including info on developing Spark using an IDE, see "Useful Developer Tools".
Interactive Scala Shell
The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:
./bin/spark-shell
Try the following command, which should return 1000:
scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()
Interactive Python Shell
Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:
./bin/pyspark
And run the following command, which should also return 1000:
>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()
Example Programs
Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples
directory.
To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]
. For example:
./bin/run-example SparkPi
will run the Pi example locally.
You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit
examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL,
"yarn" to run on YARN, and "local" to run
locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You
can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples
package. For instance:
MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi
Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.
Running Tests
Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:
./dev/run-tests
Please see the guidance on how to run tests for a module, or individual tests.
A Note About Hadoop Versions
Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs.
Please refer to the build documentation at "Specifying the Hadoop Version" for detailed guidance on building for a particular distribution of Hadoop, including building for particular Hive and Hive Thriftserver distributions.
Configuration
Please refer to the Configuration Guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.
Contributing
Please review the Contribution to Spark guide for information on how to get started contributing to the project.