I assume you tested 2.0 with SPARK-12181 .
Related code from Platform.java if java.nio.Bits#unaligned() throws
exception:
// We at least know x86 and x64 support unaligned access.
String arch = System.getProperty("os.arch", "");
//noinspection DynamicRegexReplaceableByCompiledPattern
_unaligned = arch.matches("^(i[3-6]86|x86(_64)?|x64|amd64)$");
Can you give us some detail on how the code runs for JDKs on zSystems ?
Thanks
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Adam Roberts <arobe...@uk.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm testing Spark 2.0.0 on various architectures and have a question,
> are we sure if
> core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/AbstractBytesToBytesMapSuite.java
> <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/96941b12f8b465df21423275f3cd3ade579b4fa1/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/AbstractBytesToBytesMapSuite.java>
> really is attempting to use unaligned memory access (for the
> BytesToBytesMapOffHeapSuite tests specifically)?
>
> Our JDKs on zSystems for example return false for the
> java.nio.Bits.unaligned() method and yet if I skip this check and add s390x
> to the supported architectures (for zSystems), all thirteen tests here
> pass.
>
> The 13 tests here all fail as we do not pass the unaligned requirement
> (but perhaps incorrectly):
>
> core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMapOffHeapSuite.java
> <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/d6dc12ef0146ae409834c78737c116050961f350/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/map/BytesToBytesMapOffHeapSuite.java>
> and I know the unaligned checking is at
> common/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/Platform.java
> <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/common/unsafe/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/unsafe/Platform.java>
>
> Either our JDK's method is returning false incorrectly or this test isn't
> using unaligned memory access (so the requirement is invalid), there's no
> mention of alignment in the test itself.
>
> Any guidance would be very much appreciated, cheers
>
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