Carlo Curino created YARN-567:
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             Summary: RM changes to support preemption for FairScheduler and 
CapacityScheduler
                 Key: YARN-567
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-567
             Project: Hadoop YARN
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: resourcemanager
            Reporter: Carlo Curino
            Assignee: Carlo Curino



A common tradeoff in scheduling jobs is between keeping the cluster busy and 
enforcing capacity/fairness properties. FairScheduler and CapacityScheduler 
takes opposite stance on how to achieve this. 

The FairScheduler, leverages task-killing to quickly reclaim resources from 
currently running jobs and redistributing them among new jobs, thus keeping the 
cluster busy but waste useful work. The CapacityScheduler is typically tuned
to limit the portion of the cluster used by each queue so that the likelihood 
of violating capacity is low, thus never wasting work, but risking to keep the 
cluster underutilized or have jobs waiting to obtain their rightful capacity. 

By introducing the notion of a work-preserving preemption we can remove this 
tradeoff.  This requires a protocol for preemption (YARN-45), and 
ApplicationMasters that can answer to preemption  efficiently (e.g., by saving 
their intermediate state, this will be posted for MapReduce in a separate JIRA 
soon), together with a scheduler that can issues preemption requests (discussed 
in separate JIRAs).

The changes we track with this JIRA are common to FairScheduler and 
CapacityScheduler, and are mostly propagation of preemption decisions through 
the ApplicationMastersService.


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