Commit af3bc59d1f introduced new
functionality so that if an executor dies for a reason that's not
caused by one of the tasks running on the executor (e.g., due to
pre-emption), Spark doesn't count the failure towards the maximum
number of failures for the task. That commit introduced some vague
naming that this commit attempts to fix; in particular:
(1) The variable "isNormalExit", which was used to refer to cases where
the executor died for a reason unrelated to the tasks running on the
machine, has been renamed (and reversed) to "exitCausedByApp". The problem
with the existing name is that it's not clear (at least to me!) what it
means for an exit to be "normal"; the new name is intended to make the
purpose of this variable more clear.
(2) The variable "shouldEventuallyFailJob" has been renamed to
"countTowardsTaskFailures". This variable is used to determine whether
a task's failure should be counted towards the maximum number of failures
allowed for a task before the associated Stage is aborted. The problem
with the existing name is that it can be confused with implying that
the task's failure should immediately cause the stage to fail because it
is somehow fatal (this is the case for a fetch failure, for example: if
a task fails because of a fetch failure, there's no point in retrying,
and the whole stage should be failed).
Author: Kay Ousterhout <kayousterhout@gmail.com>
Closes#9164 from kayousterhout/SPARK-11178.
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