alpinegizmo commented on a change in pull request #15811:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/15811#discussion_r625598632
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File path: docs/content/docs/ops/state/checkpoints.md
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@@ -219,10 +212,10 @@ state. To support rescaling, watermarks should be stored
per key-group in a
union-state. We most likely will implement this approach as a general solution
(didn't make it into Flink 1.11.0).
-In the upcoming release(s), Flink will address these limitations and will
-provide a fine-grained way to trigger unaligned checkpoints only for the
-in-flight data that moves slowly with timeout mechanism. These options will
-decrease the pressure on I/O in the state backends and eventually allow
-unaligned checkpoints to become the default checkpointing.
+After enabling unaligned checkpoints, you can also specify the alignment
timeout via
+`CheckpointConfig.setAlignmentTimeout(Duration)` or
`execution.checkpointing.alignment-timeout` in
+the configuration file. When activated, each checkpoint will still begin as an
aligned checkpoint,
+but if the alignment for some subtask exceeds this timeout, then the
checkpoint will proceed as an
Review comment:
```suggestion
but if the alignment time for some subtask exceeds this timeout, then the
checkpoint will proceed as an
```
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