Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2629#discussion_r86528549
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flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/runtime/tasks/StreamTask.java
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@@ -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()
+ );
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Disabling chaining does not necessarily mean that the data is sent over the
network then. Flink will still try to schedule the tasks to the same machine.
Doing a benchmark is a good idea. I think we've also done it in the past
and we concluded that the reentrant lock is too expensive if I remember
correctly.
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