GitHub user davies opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2933
use broadcast for task only when task is large enough Using broadcast for small tasks has no benefits or even some regressions (several RPCs), also there some stable issues with broadcast, so we should use broadcast for tasks only when the serialized tasks are large enough (larger than 8k, be default, maybe changed in future). In practice, most of tasks are small, so this should improve the stability for most user cases, especially for tests, which will start and stop context multiple times. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/davies/spark broadcast Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2933.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2933 ---- commit 4ca3caa3f56e56139b2e33151ff95688232c4fe3 Author: Davies Liu <dav...@databricks.com> Date: 2014-10-24T20:22:58Z use broadcast when task is large enough ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org