allow outputcommitters to skip setup/cleanup
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                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1802
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1802
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
            Assignee: Joydeep Sen Sarma


Job setup and cleanup overheads in our (larger) clusters are very significant 
and add to latency for small jobs. It turns out that Hive does not require job 
setup and cleanup at all - since all management of output/temporary files and 
such is done by the hive client side. So it would be a big win for our 
environment (and Hive users in general) if we could skip job cleanup/setup 
altogether.

The proposal is to add new calls to OutputCommitter interface (along the lines 
of needsTaskCommit()) to optionally allow skipping of setup/cleanup and for the 
JT to take these into account while scheduling setup/cleanup. NullOutputFormat 
should not need setup/cleanup for example.

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