The point was that containers are taken away from other apps that may have to discard work etc. It's not good style to claim resources and not use them eventually :-)
For this feature it is necessary to look at the scheduler capabilities/semantics and limitations. For example, don't bet exclusively on node requests if the goal is for it to work with FairScheduler. Also look at Slider, which just recently added support for anti-affinity (using node requests). When you run it on the CDH cluster, it probably won't work... On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Pramod Immaneni <[email protected]> wrote: > Once released won't the containers be available again in the pool. This > would only be optional and not mandatory. > > Thanks > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > How about also supporting a minor variation of it as an option > > > where it greedily gets the total number of containers and discards ones > > it > > > can't use and repeats the process for the remaining till everything has > > > been allocated. > > > > > > This is problematic as with resource preemption these containers will be > > potentially taken away from other applications and then thrown away. > > > > > > > > > > > Also does it make sense to support anti-cluster affinity? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Isha Arkatkar <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > We want add support for Anti-affinity in Apex to allow > applications > > to > > > > launch specific physical operators on different nodes(APEXCORE-10 > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-10>). Want to > request > > > your > > > > suggestions/ideas for the same! > > > > > > > > The reasons for using anti-affinity in operators could be: to > ensure > > > > reliability, for performance reasons (such as application may not > want > > 2 > > > > i/o intensive operators to land on the same node to improve > > performance) > > > or > > > > for some application specific constraints(for example, 2 partitions > > > cannot > > > > be run on the same node since they use same port number). This is the > > > > general rationale for adding Anti-affinity support. > > > > > > > > Since, Yarn does not support anti-affinity yet (YARN-1042 > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1042>), we need to > > implement > > > > the logic in AM. Wanted to get your views on following aspects for > this > > > > implementation: > > > > > > > > *1. How to specify anti-affinity for physical operators/partitions in > > > > application:* > > > > One way for this is to have an attribute for setting > anti-affinity > > at > > > > the logical operator context. And an operator can set this attribute > > with > > > > list of operator names which should not be collocated. > > > > Consider dag with 3 operators: > > > > TestOperator o1 = dag.addOperator("O1", new TestOperator()); > > > > TestOperator o2 = dag.addOperator("O2", new TestOperator()); > > > > TestOperator o3 = dag.addOperator("O3", new TestOperator()); > > > > > > > > To set anti-affinity for O1 operator: > > > > dag.setAttribute(o1, OperatorContext.ANTI_AFFINITY, new > > > > ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList("O2", "O3"))); > > > > This would mean O1 should not be allocated on nodes containing > > > > operators O2 and O3. This applies to all allocated partitions of O1, > > O2, > > > > O3. > > > > > > > > Also, if same operator name is part of anti-affinity list, it > means > > > > partitions of the operator should not be allocated on the same node. > > > > example: > > > > dag.setAttribute(o2, OperatorContext.ANTI_AFFINITY, new > > > > ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList("O2"))); > > > > This indicates anti-affinity between all partitions of O2. i.e. > all > > > > partitions of O2 should be launched on different nodes. > > > > > > > > Based on the anti-affinity attribute specified for logical > operator, > > > > during physical plan creation, we can add this list to each > > PTContainer. > > > > This in turn will be available for Stram for sending container > requests > > > > accordingly. > > > > > > > > Please suggest if there is a better way to express this intent. > > > > > > > > *2. How to implement anti-affinity in AM* > > > > There are 2 ways we can implement this: > > > > * a. Blacklisting of nodes: *We can group the physical container > > > requests > > > > based on anti-affinity requirements and send allocation requests for > > > > containers in groups. After first group is done, blacklist the nodes > > > before > > > > sending second group of container requests. This will ensure that the > > > > containers with anti-affinity requirements will be allocated on > > > different > > > > nodes. > > > > * b. Node specific container request: *Explore and create a map of > > > nodes > > > > present in the cluster and send allocation request for container on a > > > > specific node, honoring anti-affinity. There are couple of open Yarn > > > Jiras > > > > for node specific container requests: YARN-1412 > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1412>, YARN-2027 > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-2027>. So, need to check > > if > > > > this is a plausible approach. > > > > > > > > *3. Strict Vs Relaxed anti-affinity* > > > > Depending on cluster resources availability, it may not be possible > > to > > > > honor all anti-affinity requirements specified. > > > > *Strict Anti-affinity:* AM will keep trying to allocate containers as > > per > > > > anti-affinity requirements indefinitely. This behavior will be > similar > > to > > > > how an application shows in ACCEPTED state, till resources are > > available > > > to > > > > launch in cluster. > > > > *Relaxed Anti-affinity:* AM will drop the anti-affinity constraint > > after > > > a > > > > certain timeout. > > > > > > > > We need a way to set this attribute through application. (Either in > > > > operator context or in DAGContext for application wide setting.) > > > > > > > > *4. How do we unit test this feature* > > > > We could use Mockito for mocking Yarn behaviors and test only AM > > > > implementation, since it may not be easy to simulate some scenarios > > > > manually in cluster. Please suggest if there are better ways to test > > > this. > > > > > > > > Please suggest improvements or any other ideas on all of the above. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Isha > > > > > > > > P.S. Sorry for long email. Please let me know if I should start > > separate > > > > threads for any of the above points. > > > > > > > > > >
