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zhijiang commented on FLINK-10662:
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[~pnowojski], I am currently working on this. If we change to return single
{{int}} for {{ChannelSelector#selectChannels, there are some choices for
special }}{{BroadcastPartitioner}} implementation.
# Return any int such as -1 for BroadcastPartitioner, because this value would
not really be used in {{RecordWriter}} side. We can make it shortcut branch for
{{BroadcastPartitioner}} in {{RecordWriter}}. This way is easy to handle, but
may seem a little hacky to return a dummy value in {{selectChannels}} method.
# Return a `tuple<boolean, int>` for {{ChannelSelector#selectChannels}}, and
the first boolean value indicate whether it is broadcast or not. If broadcast,
we will ignore the second selected channel index in tuple. I am wondering if it
would bring additional overhead than the first way above.
# Define a high level interface called {{ChannelSelectorBase}} with no
specific methods, then {{ChannelSelector}} extends {{ChannelSelectorBase}} and
{{BroadcastPartitioner}} implements {{ChannelSelectorBase}} directly, because
it does not need any methods to return selected channels. In this way, we
change the current class structure and also need adjust the API in
{{DataStream}} to reference {{ChannelSelectorBase}} instead of
{{StreamPartitioner}}. It would be more complex to handle all the related
references.
Currently, I would prefer the first way although it seems a little hacky, or do
you have other better suggestions? :)
> Refactor the ChannelSelector interface for single selected channel
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>
> Key: FLINK-10662
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10662
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Network
> Affects Versions: 1.5.4, 1.6.1
> Reporter: zhijiang
> Assignee: zhijiang
> Priority: Minor
>
> In the discussion of broadcast improvement, [~pnowojski] pointed out the
> issue of improving the current channel selector.
>
> In {{ChannelSelector#selectChannels}}, it would return an array for selected
> channels. But considering specific implementations, only
> {{BroadcastPartitioner}} would select all the channels, and other
> implementations will select one channel. So we can simple this interface to
> return single channel index for benefiting performance, and specialize the
> {{BroadcastPartitioner}} in a more efficient way.
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