Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4937#discussion_r148750995
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/instance/SlotPool.java ---
@@ -262,23 +263,36 @@ public void disconnectResourceManager() {
//
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@Override
- public CompletableFuture<SimpleSlot> allocateSlot(
- ScheduledUnit task,
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Because this information is needed for scheduling.
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