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Arvid Heise commented on FLINK-14304:
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> Avoid task starvation with mailbox
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> Key: FLINK-14304
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-14304
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Runtime / Task
> Reporter: Arvid Heise
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Currently, all mails are always prioritized over regular input, which makes
> sense in most cases. However, it's easy to devise an operator that gets into
> starvation: each mail enqueues a new mail.
> This ticket implements a simple extension in the mailbox processor: instead
> of draining the mailbox one-by-one, fetch all mails from the mailbox and run
> them one-by-one before running the default action. Only then, fetch all mails
> again and repeat.
> So we execute all mails that are available at the start of this loop but no
> mails that are added in the meantime.
> Special attention needs to be directed towards yield to downstream, such that
> it doesn't process mails outside of the current batch.
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