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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-4391:
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Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2629#discussion_r86340921
--- Diff:
flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/runtime/tasks/StreamTask.java
---
@@ -540,15 +540,12 @@ private boolean performCheckpoint(CheckpointMetaData
checkpointMetaData) throws
synchronized (lock) {
if (isRunning) {
+ checkpointState(checkpointMetaData);
- // Since both state checkpointing and
downstream barrier emission occurs in this
- // lock scope, they are an atomic operation
regardless of the order in which they occur.
- // Given this, we immediately emit the
checkpoint barriers, so the downstream operators
- // can start their checkpoint work as soon as
possible
+ // broadcast barriers after snapshot operators'
states.
operatorChain.broadcastCheckpointBarrier(
-
checkpointMetaData.getCheckpointId(), checkpointMetaData.getTimestamp());
-
- checkpointState(checkpointMetaData);
+
checkpointMetaData.getCheckpointId(), checkpointMetaData.getTimestamp()
+ );
--- End diff --
Changing the order of broadcasting the checkpoint barrier to downstream
operators and performing the actual checkpoint is very problematic. First
drawing the checkpoint and then sending the checkpoint barrier downstream will
add the latency of creating the checkpoint to the barrier for each operator.
This will considerably influence the overall checkpointing time, because the
individual checkpoints are effectively executed sequentially. Thus, I fear that
this change is not possible.
Is the problem that the `AsyncWaitOperator#Emitter` can emit results while
we're drawing the checkpoints? I think the proper way to solve this problem is
to let the output operation happen under the checkpoint lock. That way, you are
sure that no element will be outputted while the checkpointing is active.
> Provide support for asynchronous operations over streams
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-4391
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4391
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: DataStream API
> Reporter: Jamie Grier
> Assignee: david.wang
>
> Many Flink users need to do asynchronous processing driven by data from a
> DataStream. The classic example would be joining against an external
> database in order to enrich a stream with extra information.
> It would be nice to add general support for this type of operation in the
> Flink API. Ideally this could simply take the form of a new operator that
> manages async operations, keeps so many of them in flight, and then emits
> results to downstream operators as the async operations complete.
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