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Zhu Zhu commented on FLINK-10945:
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Here's the design doc and welcome comments.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jpqC7OW_nLOSVOg06_QCWelicVtV6Au0Krg5m_S4kjY/edit?usp=sharing
> Avoid resource deadlocks for finite stream jobs when resources are limited
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>
> Key: FLINK-10945
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10945
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Distributed Coordination
> Affects Versions: 1.7.1
> Reporter: Zhu Zhu
> Assignee: Zhu Zhu
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently *resource deadlocks* can happen to finite stream jobs(or batch
> jobs) when resources are limited. In 2 cases as below:
> # Task Y is a pipelined downstream task of task X. When X takes all
> resources(slots), Y cannot acquire slots to start, thus the back pressure
> will block X to finish
> # Task Y is a upstream task of task X. When X takes all resources(slots) and
> Y cannot start, X cannot finish as some of its inputs are not finished
>
> We can avoid case 1 by setting all edges to be BLOCKING to avoid pipeline
> back pressure. However, case 2 cannot be avoided as X(downstream task) will
> be launched when any of its input result is ready.
> To be detailed, say task X has BLOCKING upstream task Y and Z, X can be
> launched when Z finishes, though task Y is not launched yet. This pre-launch
> behaviour can be beneficial when there are plenty of resources, thus X can
> process data from Z earlier before Y finishes its data processing. However,
> resource deadlocks may happen when the resources are limited, e.g. in small
> sessions.
>
> I’d propose introducing a constraint named as *InputDependencyConstraint* to
> control the scheduling of vertices. It has 2 values:
> # *ANY*. The vertex can be scheduled when any of its inputs is consumable.
> # *ALL*. The vertex can be scheduled when all of its inputs are consumable.
> Here one input corresponds to an *IntermediateResult*. The constraint can be
> configured for *certain vertex or job-wide*. When the constraint is *ALL*, a
> task will be launched after all its upstream tasks have been deployed,
> avoiding case 2 of resource deadlocks. By setting all job edges to *BLOCKING*
> and all vertex InputDependencyConstraint to *ALL*, we can make sure that all
> tasks can finish once they are deployed, thus no resource deadlock will
> happen.
> Making the constraint *ANY* job-wide will keep the job scheduling behaves in
> the same way as current version.
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