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Wangda Tan commented on YARN-4964:
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Should this be moved to MAPREDUCE project?
> Allow ShuffleHandler readahead without drop-behind
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> Key: YARN-4964
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-4964
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: nodemanager
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.7.2
> Reporter: Nathan Roberts
> Assignee: Nathan Roberts
> Attachments: YARN-4964.001.patch
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> Currently mapreduce.shuffle.manage.os.cache enables/disables both readahead
> (POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) and drop-behind (POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) logic within the
> ShuffleHandler.
> It would be beneficial if these were separately configurable.
> - Running without readahead can lead to significant seek storms caused by
> large numbers of sendfiles() competing with one another.
> - However, running with drop-behind can also lead to seek storms because
> there are cases where the server can successfully write the shuffle bytes to
> the network, BUT the client doesn't want the bytes right now (MergeManager
> wants to WAIT is an example) so it ignores them and asks for them again a bit
> later. This causes repeated reads of the same data from disk.
> I'll attach a simple patch that enables/disables readahead based on
> mapreduce.shuffle.readahead.bytes==0, leaving
> mapreduce.shuffle.manage.os.cache controlling only the drop-behind.
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