Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/876#issuecomment-44226720
@syedhashmi If you just want to shuffle stuff around randomly (i.e. you
lose affinity of keys to specific partitions) then isn't it sufficient to just
call `repartition` on the RDD? I added some code recently that does round robin
balancing when calling `repartition`:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/727
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