That makes sense, Sandy.

When you add the patch, can you make sure you comment inline on why the
fallback is needed?



On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Sandy Ryza <sandy.r...@cloudera.com>
wrote:

> I'm working on a patch that switches this stuff out with the Hadoop
> FileSystem StatisticsData, which will both give an accurate count and allow
> us to get metrics while the task is in progress.  A hitch is that it relies
> on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10688, so we still might
> want a fallback for versions of Hadoop that don't have this API.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
>
> > There is one piece of information that'd be useful to know, which is the
> > source of the input. Even in the presence of an IOException, the input
> > metrics still specifies the task is reading from Hadoop.
> >
> > However, I'm slightly confused by this -- I think usually we'd want to
> > report the number of bytes read, rather than the total input size. For
> > example, if there is a limit (only read the first 5 records), the actual
> > number of bytes read is much smaller than the total split size.
> >
> > Kay, am I mis-interpreting this?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Starting at line 203:
> > >       try {
> > >         /* bytesRead may not exactly equal the bytes read by a task:
> > split
> > > boundaries aren't
> > >          * always at record boundaries, so tasks may need to read into
> > > other splits to complete
> > >          * a record. */
> > >         inputMetrics.bytesRead = split.inputSplit.value.getLength()
> > >       } catch {
> > >         case e: java.io.IOException =>
> > >           logWarning("Unable to get input size to set InputMetrics for
> > > task", e)
> > >       }
> > >       context.taskMetrics.inputMetrics = Some(inputMetrics)
> > >
> > > If there is IOException, context.taskMetrics.inputMetrics is set by
> > > wrapping inputMetrics - as if there wasn't any error.
> > >
> > > I wonder if the above code should distinguish the error condition.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> >
>

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