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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HADOOP-3740:
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I have not been following HADOOP-3412 , by quickly looking at it it could be.
My specific use case is the example I've put in the description:
I need to throttle access to external resources from the Hadoop cluster. As the
execution unit in the Hadoop cluster is a task, it seems natural to assign
'license' tags to the Map and Reduce of a job, when a task is started license
tokens are taken from a license manager and when a task is completed
(SUCCESS/FAIL) the tokens are returned to the license manager. the
{{obtainNew*Task}} would be the hook to get tokens returning NULL if no token
is avail for that 'license' tag, the {{updateTaskInProgress}} would be the hook
for returning the license token.
> Make JobInProgress pluggable
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>
> Key: HADOOP-3740
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3740
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
>
> By allowing a pluggable JobInProgess it will be possible for provide
> implementations that can do a sophisticated task provisioning to the
> JobTracker.
> For example, by providing alternate implementations of the
> {{obtainNewMapTask}}, {{obtainNewReduceTask}} and {{updateTaskInProgress}} it
> would be possible to implement a license server that allows to throttle use
> of external resources (ie webservices, databases) so at any given time there
> are not more than N tasks using a given resource. For this a task could be
> tagged with the names of external resources and the license server would keep
> track of the tasks running per tag, if the counter reaches zero then the
> {{obtainNew*Task}} method could return NULL instead of a task.
>
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