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Matei Zaharia commented on HADOOP-3412:
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bq. The users of the getQueueNames() and getJobs(queue) would be the web ui and
the command line tools "bin/hadoop job". Of course the ordering doesn't have to
be exclusive, but almost all schedulers will have a rough priority within the
queue. It is basically about providing information about the scheduler to the
user. Does that make sense?
I see, I guess it's an issue of increasing API complexity vs benefit of seeing
jobs in sorted order then. Personally I'd prefer if the API that the scheduler
had to implement was a simple as possible. I think there are two solutions to
the problem you're mentioning with providing info about the scheduler to the
user:
* Short-term, just sort the jobs by submit time and also tell the user the
priority of each job. This is easy to parse (the user can even figure out which
job is which based on the order they submitted them), and it's also what the
web UI currently provides.
* Longer-term, it would be nice if schedulers (and maybe other elements of
Hadoop as well) could simply register other web apps / servlets on the
StatusHttpServer. This is actually how I'm planning to create a dashboard for
my scheduler. Hopefully the only thing it requires is adding a getter for the
server.
> Refactor the scheduler out of the JobTracker
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-3412
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3412
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Brice Arnould
> Assignee: Brice Arnould
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: JobScheduler-v10.patch, JobScheduler-v9.1.patch,
> JobScheduler-v9.2.patch, JobScheduler-v9.patch, JobScheduler.patch,
> JobScheduler_v2.patch, JobScheduler_v3.patch, JobScheduler_v3b.patch,
> JobScheduler_v4.patch, JobScheduler_v5.patch, JobScheduler_v6.1.patch,
> JobScheduler_v6.2.patch, JobScheduler_v6.3.patch, JobScheduler_v6.4.patch,
> JobScheduler_v6.patch, JobScheduler_v7.1.patch, JobScheduler_v7.patch,
> JobScheduler_v8.patch, RackAwareJobScheduler.java,
> SimpleResourceAwareJobScheduler.java
>
>
> First I would like warn you that my proposition is assumed to be very naive.
> I just hope that reading it won't make you lose time.
> h4. The aim
> It seems to me that improving Hadoop scheduling could be very profitable.
> But, it is hard to implement and compare schedulers, because the scheduling
> logic is mixed within the rest of the JobTracker.
> This bug is the first step of an attempt to improve the Hadoop scheduler. It
> re-implements the current scheduling algorithm in a separate class called
> JobScheduler. This new class is instantiated in the JobTracker.
> h4. Bug fixed as a side effects
> This patch probably cannot be submited as it is.
> A first difficulty is that it does not have exactly the same behaviour than
> the current JobTracker. More precisely, it doesn't re-implement things like
> code that seems to be never called or concurency problems.
> I wrote TOCONFIRM where my proposition differ from the current
> implementation, so you can find them easily.
> I know that fixing bugs silently is bad. So, independently of what you decide
> about this patch, I will open issues for bugs that you confirm.
> h4. Other side effects
> Another side effect of this patch is to add documentation about each step of
> the scheduling. I hope that it will help future improvement by lowering the
> level required to contribute to the scheduler.
> It also reduces the complexity and the granularity of the JobTracker (making
> it more parallel).
> h4. The future
> If you feel that this is a step the right direction, I will try to propose a
> JobSchedulerInterface that many JobSchedulers could implement and to propose
> alternatives to the current « FifoJobScheduler ». If some of you have ideas
> about that please tell ^^ I will also open issues for things marked as FIXME
> in the patch.
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