Hi,

Are there any comments or suggestions regarding this proposal?

Thanks,

Juan


On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Juan Rodríguez Hortalá <
juan.rodriguez.hort...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a prototype for "Keep track of nodes which are going to be shut
> down & avoid scheduling new tasks" (https://issues.apache.
> org/jira/browse/SPARK-20628) that I would like to discuss with the
> community. I added a WIP PR for that in https://github.com/apache/
> spark/pull/19267. The basic idea is implementing a mechanism similar to
> YARN's graceful decommission, but for Spark. There is a design document for
> this in https://github.com/apache/spark/files/1349653/Spark_
> Blacklisting_on_decommissioning-Scope.pdf. I would like to know the
> opinion of the list on this approach.
>
> *More details about this proposal*
> In the PR we define a HostState type to represent the state of the cluster
> nodes, and take actions in 
> CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.handleUpdatedHostState
> when a node transitions into a state where the node becomes partially or
> totally unavailable. Just like in YARN or Mesos, we propose a decommission
> mechanism with 2 phases, first a drain phase where the node is still
> running but not accepting further work (DECOMMISSIONING in YARN, and DRAIN
> in Mesos), followed by a second phase where executors in the node are
> forcibly shut down (DECOMMISIONED in YARN, and DOWN in Mesos). In this PR
> we focus only in YARN, and in the actions when the node transitions into
> DECOMMISSIONING state: blacklisting the node when it transitions to
> DECOMMISSIONING, and un-blacklist the node when it gets back to the normal
> healthy RUNNING state.
> The decommissioning process would not be initiated by Spark, but by an
> operator or an automated system (e.g. the cloud environment where YARN is
> running), on response to some relevant event (e.g. a cluster resize event),
> and it would consist on calling the YARN administrative command yarn
> rmadmin -refreshNodes -g for the affected node. Spark would just react to
> the node state transition events it receives from the cluster manager.
> To make this extensible to other cluster managers besides YARN, we define
> the HostState type in Spark, and keep the interaction with the specifics of
> each cluster manager into the corresponding packages. For example for YARN,
> when YarnAllocator gets a node state transition event, it converts the node
> event from the YARN specific NodeState into HostState, wraps it into a
> HostStatusUpdate message, and sends it to the
> CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend, that then performs the required actions for
> that node.
>
> This code works on a modified version of Hadoop 2.7.3 with patches to
> support YARN-4676 (basic graceful decommission), and an approximation to
> YARN-3224 (when a node transitions into DECOMMISSIONING state the resource
> manager notifies that to each relevant application master by adding it to
> the list of updated nodes available in the AllocateResponse returned by the
> RM as a response to the AM heartbeat). For these reasons, this code won't
> work as-is on vanilla Hadoop. The main problem is that the decommissioning
> mechanism for YARN is not completely implemented (see YARN-914), and some
> of the parts that are implemented are only available for YARN 2.9.0 (see
> YARN-4676). To cope with this, we propose implementing an administrative
> command to send node transitions directly to the Spark driver, as
> HostStatusUpdate messages addressed to the CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.
> This command would be similar to the yarn rmadmin -refreshNodes -g, which
> is currently used for decommissioning nodes in YARN. When YARN-914 is
> complete, this could still be used as a secondary interface for
> decommissioning nodes, so nodes transitions could be signaled either by the
> cluster manager, or using the administrative command (either manually or
> through some automation implemented by the cloud environment).
>
> We would like to get some feedback on this approach in general, and in the
> administrative command solution in particular. If that sounds good, then we
> will work on modifying this PR so it works on vanilla Hadoop 2.7, and to
> implement the administrative command.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juan Rodriguez Hortala
>

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