Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1165#discussion_r17645275 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/CacheManager.scala --- @@ -118,21 +118,29 @@ private[spark] class CacheManager(blockManager: BlockManager) extends Logging { } /** - * Cache the values of a partition, keeping track of any updates in the storage statuses - * of other blocks along the way. + * Cache the values of a partition, keeping track of any updates in the storage statuses of + * other blocks along the way. + * + * The effective storage level refers to the level that actually specifies BlockManager put + * behavior, not the level originally specified by the user. This is mainly for forcing a + * MEMORY_AND_DISK partition to disk if there is not enough room to unroll the partition, + * while preserving the the original semantics of the RDD as specified by the application. */ private def putInBlockManager[T]( --- End diff -- Ah, got it. So it's a follow of the origin implementation: val elements = new ArrayBuffer[Any] elements ++= computedValues ... return elements.iterator.asInstanceOf[Iterator[T]] Then we can ensure the returned iterator will always have data for user.
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