narendly commented on a change in pull request #1006:
URL: https://github.com/apache/helix/pull/1006#discussion_r430046070



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File path: helix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/helix/task/RuntimeJobDag.java
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@@ -145,9 +145,21 @@ public boolean finishJob(String job) {
           String.format("Job: %s has either finished already, never been 
scheduled, or been removed from DAG", job));
     }
     // Add finished job's successors to ready-list
+
+    // If it is a jobQueue, there should be a check to make sure that the a 
job has not been added
+    // to the _readyJobList multiple times. This check is necessary because 
once the controller
+    // switch happens, the _readyJobList and _inflightJobList will be created 
from scratch. In this
+    // case, since there might be many jobs that have been finished before, we 
do not want to have a
+    // job several times to the _readyJobList. If _readyJobList has multiple 
instances of the same
+    // job, it can compromise the functionality of the parallel jobs.

Review comment:
       @alirezazamani Thank for explaining with concrete examples. So the root 
cause seems to be that we do not do if (!_readyJobList.contains(nextJob)) when 
we add the jobs to the ready list.
   
   Good find and good fix! :)




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