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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-22765:
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I'm not clear why this needs another allocation scheme. You say dynamic
allocation has overhead at runtime -- yes -- and M/R doesn't because it's
static. So why not disable dynamic allocation? Things you're identifying as
"problems" are just because Spark is a generalization; you can write a bunch of
independent 2-stage map-reduce jobs if you want. Killing idle executors is the
point of dynamic allocation, not a problem.
I don't see any detail on how this differs from anything else in Spark.
> Create a new executor allocation scheme based on that of MR
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> Key: SPARK-22765
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22765
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Scheduler
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
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> Many users migrating their workload from MR to Spark find a significant
> resource consumption hike (i.e, SPARK-22683). While this might not be a
> concern for users that are more performance centric, for others conscious
> about cost, such hike creates a migration obstacle. This situation can get
> worse as more users are moving to cloud.
> Dynamic allocation make it possible for Spark to be deployed in multi-tenant
> environment. With its performance-centric design, its inefficiency has also
> unfortunately shown up, especially when compared with MR. Thus, it's believed
> that MR-styled scheduler still has its merit. Based on our research, the
> inefficiency associated with dynamic allocation comes in many aspects such as
> executor idling out, bigger executors, many stages (rather than 2 stages only
> in MR) in a spark job, etc.
> Rather than fine tuning dynamic allocation for efficiency, the proposal here
> is to add a new, efficiency-centric scheduling scheme based on that of MR.
> Such a MR-based scheme can be further enhanced and be more adapted to Spark
> execution model. This alternative is expected to offer good performance
> improvement (compared to MR) still with similar to or even better efficiency
> than MR.
> Inputs are greatly welcome!
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