Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6228#discussion_r199815863
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/heap/KeyGroupPartitionedPriorityQueue.java
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+
+package org.apache.flink.runtime.state.heap;
+
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.InternalPriorityQueue;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyExtractorFunction;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyGroupRange;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyGroupRangeAssignment;
+import org.apache.flink.util.CloseableIterator;
+import org.apache.flink.util.IOUtils;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nonnegative;
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+/**
+ * This implementation of {@link InternalPriorityQueue} is internally
partitioned into sub-queues per key-group and
+ * essentially works as a heap-of-heaps. Instances will have set semantics
for elements if the sub-queues have set
+ * semantics.
+ *
+ * @param <T> the type of elements in the queue.
+ * @param <PQ> type type of sub-queue used for each key-group partition.
+ */
+public class KeyGroupPartitionedPriorityQueue<T, PQ extends
InternalPriorityQueue<T> & HeapPriorityQueueElement>
+ implements InternalPriorityQueue<T> {
+
+ /** A heap of heap sets. Each sub-heap represents the partition for a
key-group.*/
+ @Nonnull
+ private final HeapPriorityQueue<PQ> keyGroupHeap;
+
+ /** All elements from keyGroupHeap, indexed by their key-group id,
relative to firstKeyGroup. */
+ @Nonnull
+ private final PQ[] keyGroupLists;
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