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Amar Kamat commented on HADOOP-2014:
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bq. Uh, both are very expensive to do on every heartbeat (i.e. the inner loop) 
isn't it?!
I should have mentioned it earlier. I was trying to link HADOOP-2119 and 
HADOOP-2014 since HADOOP-2119 deals with {{JobInProgress.findNewTask()}}. The 
algorithm mentioned above is for {{JobInProgress.findNewTask()}}. I got Owen's 
point thats why I mentioned
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(and also some load/rack/io/map-slots considerations)
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Just wanted to make sure that we also do the same for _speculation_. From what 
I followed, the discussion is mainly for {{Runnable && ~Running}}.

> Job Tracker should prefer input-splits from overloaded racks
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2014
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2014
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Runping Qi
>            Assignee: Devaraj Das
>
> Currently, when the Job Tracker assigns a mapper task to a task tracker and 
> there is no local split to the task tracker, the
> job tracker will find the first runable task in the mast task list  and 
> assign the task to the task tracker.
> The split for the task is not local to the task tracker, of course. However, 
> the split may be local to other task trackers.
> Assigning the that task, to that task tracker may decrease the potential 
> number of mapper attempts with data locality.
> The desired behavior in this situation is to choose a task whose split is not 
> local to any  task tracker. 
> Resort to the current behavior only if no such task is found.
> In general, it will be useful to know the number of task trackers to which 
> each split is local.
> To assign a task to a task tracker, the job tracker should first  try to pick 
> a task that is local to the task tracker  and that has minimal number of task 
> trackers to which it is local. If no task is local to the task tracker, the 
> job tracker should  try to pick a task that has minimal number of task 
> trackers to which it is local. 
> It is worthwhile to instrument the job tracker code to report the number of 
> splits that are local to some task trackers.
> That should be the maximum number of tasks with data locality. By comparing 
> that number with the the actual number of 
> data local mappers launched, we can know the effectiveness of the job tracker 
> scheduling.
> When we introduce rack locality, we should apply the same principle.

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