Saisai Shao created SPARK-3032:
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             Summary: Potential bug when running sort-based shuffle with 
sorting using TimSort
                 Key: SPARK-3032
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3032
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Shuffle
    Affects Versions: 1.1.0
            Reporter: Saisai Shao


When using SparkPerf's aggregate-by-key workload to test sort-based shuffle, 
data type for key and value is (String, String), always meet this issue:

{noformat}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general 
contract!
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.Sorter$SortState.mergeLo(Sorter.java:755)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.Sorter$SortState.mergeAt(Sorter.java:493)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.Sorter$SortState.mergeCollapse(Sorter.java:420)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.Sorter$SortState.access$200(Sorter.java:294)
        at org.apache.spark.util.collection.Sorter.sort(Sorter.java:128)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.SizeTrackingPairBuffer.destructiveSortedIterator(SizeTrackingPairBuffer.scala:83)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.ExternalSorter.spillToMergeableFile(ExternalSorter.scala:323)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.ExternalSorter.spill(ExternalSorter.scala:271)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.ExternalSorter.maybeSpill(ExternalSorter.scala:249)
        at 
org.apache.spark.util.collection.ExternalSorter.insertAll(ExternalSorter.scala:220)
        at 
org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.SortShuffleWriter.write(SortShuffleWriter.scala:85)
        at 
org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:68)
        at 
org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:41)
        at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:54)
        at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:199)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
{noformat}

Seems the current partitionKeyComparator which use hashcode of String as key 
comparator break some sorting contracts. 

Also I tested using data type Int as key, this is OK to pass the test, since 
hashcode of Int is its self. So I think potentially partitionDiff + hashcode of 
String may break the sorting contracts.



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