Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1165#discussion_r17518799 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/MemoryStore.scala --- @@ -141,6 +193,93 @@ private class MemoryStore(blockManager: BlockManager, maxMemory: Long) } /** + * Unroll the given block in memory safely. + * + * The safety of this operation refers to avoiding potential OOM exceptions caused by + * unrolling the entirety of the block in memory at once. This is achieved by periodically + * checking whether the memory restrictions for unrolling blocks are still satisfied, + * stopping immediately if not. This check is a safeguard against the scenario in which + * there is not enough free memory to accommodate the entirety of a single block. + * + * This method returns either an array with the contents of the entire block or an iterator + * containing the values of the block (if the array would have exceeded available memory). + */ + def unrollSafely( + blockId: BlockId, + values: Iterator[Any], + droppedBlocks: ArrayBuffer[(BlockId, BlockStatus)]) + : Either[Array[Any], Iterator[Any]] = { + + // Number of elements unrolled so far + var elementsUnrolled = 0 + // Whether there is still enough memory for us to continue unrolling this block + var keepUnrolling = true + // Initial per-thread memory to request for unrolling blocks (bytes). Exposed for testing. + val initialMemoryThreshold = conf.getLong("spark.storage.unrollMemoryThreshold", 1024 * 1024) + // How often to check whether we need to request more memory + val memoryCheckPeriod = 16 + // Memory currently reserved by this thread for this particular unrolling operation + var memoryThreshold = initialMemoryThreshold + // Memory to request as a multiple of current vector size + val memoryGrowthFactor = 1.5 + // Previous unroll memory held by this thread, for releasing later (only at the very end) + val previousMemoryReserved = currentUnrollMemoryForThisThread + // Underlying vector for unrolling the block + var vector = new SizeTrackingVector[Any] + + // Request enough memory to begin unrolling + keepUnrolling = reserveUnrollMemoryForThisThread(initialMemoryThreshold) + + // Unroll this block safely, checking whether we have exceeded our threshold periodically + try { + while (values.hasNext && keepUnrolling) { + vector += values.next() + if (elementsUnrolled % memoryCheckPeriod == 0) { + // If our vector's size has exceeded the threshold, request more memory + val currentSize = vector.estimateSize() + if (currentSize >= memoryThreshold) { + val amountToRequest = (currentSize * (memoryGrowthFactor - 1)).toLong + // Hold the accounting lock, in case another thread concurrently puts a block that + // takes up the unrolling space we just ensured here + accountingLock.synchronized { + if (!reserveUnrollMemoryForThisThread(amountToRequest)) { + // If the first request is not granted, try again after ensuring free space + // If there is still not enough space, give up and drop the partition + val spaceToEnsure = maxUnrollMemory - currentUnrollMemory --- End diff -- but in "reserveUnrollMemoryForThisThread", we don't ensure unrollMemory is smaller than maxUnrollMemory. So if there is enough free memory, we can still put a block exceed the size limit(maxUnrollMemory). Is that what we want?
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