+1 I like where this is headed. One question: during restore, it could happen that a new task manager is configured with fewer or smaller buffers than was previously the case. How will this be handled?
David On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:31 AM Arvid Heise <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > it's like you said. The first version will not support rescaling and mostly > addresses the concerns about making little to no progress because of > frequent crashes. > > The main reason is that we cannot guarantee the ordering of non-keyed data > (and even keyed data in some weird cases) when rescaling currently. We have > a general concept to address that, which would also enable dynamic > rescaling in the future, but that would make the changes even bigger and we > would not have any version ready for 1.11. > > The current plan, of course, is to continue improving unaligned checkpoints > immediately after release, such that we have the full feature set for 1.12. > Potentially, unaligned checkpoints (with timeouts) would even become the > default option. > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:14 PM Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > Thanks for putting this together, looking forward to the experimental > > support in the next release. > > > > One clarification: since the MVP won't support rescaling, does it imply > > that savepoints will always use aligned checkpointing? If so, this would > > still block the user from taking a savepoint and resume with increased > > parallelism to resolve a prolonged/permanent backpressure condition? > > > > Thanks, > > Thomas > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:33 AM Arvid Heise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would like to start the vote for FLIP-76 [1], which is discussed and > > > reached a consensus in the discussion thread [2]. > > > > > > The vote will be open until March. 13th (72h), unless there is an > > objection > > > or not enough votes. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Arvid > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-76%3A+Unaligned+Checkpoints > > > [2] > > > > > > > > > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-FLIP-76-Unaligned-checkpoints-td33651.html > > > > > >
