Xinyu Liu created SAMZA-1627:
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Summary: Watermark broadcast enhancements
Key: SAMZA-1627
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-1627
Project: Samza
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Xinyu Liu
Assignee: Xinyu Liu
Currently each upstream task needs to broadcast to every single partition of
intermediate streams in order to aggregate watermarks in the consumers. It's
O(n^2). For 256 tasks, 256-partition intermediate stream this can easily result
in 64k msg/s if we send watermark every second. To illustrate:
T1 T2 T3
| \ /\ | /\ /\ |
P1 P2 P3
A better way to do this is to have only one downstream consumer doing the
aggregation, and then broadcast to all the partitions. This is safe as we can
do a simple proof: if P1 received watermark of t from all T1, T2, and T3, all
the messages before t have been published to (P1, P2, P3) already (might not be
consumed yet). So P1 can safely broadcast the watermark t to P2 and P3. To
illustrate:
T1 T2 T3
\ | /
P1
/ \
P2 P3
This reduced the full message count from O(n^2) to O(n). In practice, the
aggregate consumer can be decided from the (topic.hash() % total partitions) to
spread the aggregation if we have multiple intermediate streams.
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