The design scope is very general, but, for the applications we are thinking about now, this is a bit complex and will make the solutions a little bit indirect. Especially, this one "data to be sent between any two three-coordinate locations" implies sideband data goes in teleport? This is a bit too involving. And even for advanced pushdown, it is not necessary to be that flexible for communications.
My original picture of "sideband" is that the additional information should be "associated with" RecordBatch. That means this additional information should be attached to a particular RecordBatch and cannot run on their own. As the RecordBatch flows from upstream to downstream, the operator can optionally access or update the sideband message. For example, in the application of record-skipping, operator can see how many records were skipped so far and increment the count if more are skipped. If we go with this design, the place we need to change is on the receiver side, which needs to decode the sideband info from the incoming buffers. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > inline > > It seems that SidebandTunnel is point-to-point. That is, there is one > > producer and one consumer. No broadcast or topics (multiple consumers of > > the same message). Order is preserved. At-most-once (i.e. may lose data > in > > event of failure). Producer and consumer may be on the same node or > > different nodes. Correct? > > > > Yes, you are correct in all of this. Since we don't use UDP in Drill, we do > broadcast as a collection of individual p2p calls, all using the same > message (and multiple reference counts if using raw bytes). > > > > > > I’m not sure SidebandTunnel.close is necessary. I would presume that a > > SidebandTunnel is closed when its associated statement is closed, and > only > > then. > > > > I started without it. My thought was that we may need to signal that you've > gotten all of a sideband stream prior to the close of a particular > fragment. If I'm on the downside of an operation reporting multiple skips, > I may want to hold off on reporting to the user until I got all of the > messages. One option is for the sender to send a discrete message via the > Tunnel close. The other option is a implicit message when the fragment is > completed. I like the latter from a cleanliness perspective but think the > former may be required. I'm ok for not exposing at the tunnel level > publically initially and we can always expose later. I would love to hear > whether people think there is going to be a need/use case to continue > fragment operation but have another operator know that a sideband stream is > complete. Maybe when sending a downstream set of samples on the first 1mm > records of a larger scan? > > > > Also, would it be easier if the tunnels were defined as part of the DAG, > > and DAG initialization time was the only time that they could be created? > > > > That is a really good question. I need to think about it a bit. I'm not > sure it is easier given my initial proposal is to piggy-back on the > DataTunnel, (which is independent of DAG initialization). However, it > might be cleaner if operators have to declare this relationship at > initialization time and it is all managed 'outside'. > > Thanks for the feedback. Will need to think further on your last point > especially. > > > > > > Julian > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Please see some initial thoughts attached. Would love feedback and > > thoughts > > > from others on how we can shape this. > > > > > > https://gist.github.com/jacques-n/84b13e704e0e3829ca99 > > > > > > -- > > > Jacques Nadeau > > > CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Zelaine Fong <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> Yes, it would be great to get your thoughts so we can assess the scope > > of > > >> what's involved. > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> -- Zelaine > > >> > > >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> Definitely agree that we shouldn't boil the ocean. That said, I > don't > > >>> think we should make RecordBatch interface changes without deliberate > > >>> design. Same for RPC protocol changes. Part of my internal struggle > > with > > >>> the warning patch is exactly this lack of broader design. I think > this > > is > > >>> especially true given the drive to supports backwards compatibility. > > >>> > > >>> I don't think we're talking about a massive undertaking. I'll try to > > >> write > > >>> up some thoughts later this week to get the ball rolling. Sound good? > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Jacques Nadeau > > >>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio > > >>> +1 on having a framework. > > >>> OTOH, as with the warnings implementation, we might want to go ahead > > >> with a > > >>> simpler implementation while we get a more generic framework design > in > > >>> place. > > >>> > > >>> Jacques, do you have any preliminary thoughts on the framework? > > >>> > > >>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> +1 for a sideband mechanism. > > >>>> > > >>>> Sideband can also allow correlated restart of sub-queries. > > >>>> > > >>>> In sideband use cases you described, the messages ran in the > opposite > > >>>> direction to the data. Would the sideband also run in the same > > >> direction > > >>> as > > >>>> the data? If so it could carry warnings, rejected rows, progress > > >>>> indications, and (for online aggregation[1]) notifications that a > > >> better > > >>>> approximate query result is available. > > >>>> > > >>>> Julian > > >>>> > > >>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_aggregation > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>> This seems like a form of sideband communication. I think we should > > >>> have > > >>>> a > > >>>>> framework for this type of thing in general rather than a one-off > for > > >>>> this > > >>>>> particular need. Other forms of sideband might be small table > > >>> bloomfilter > > >>>>> generation and pushdown into hbase, separate file > > >>> assignment/partitioning > > >>>>> providers balancing/generating scanner workloads, statistics > > >> generation > > >>>> for > > >>>>> adaptive execution, etc. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> -- > > >>>>> Jacques Nadeau > > >>>>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio > > >>>>> > > >>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Hsuan Yi Chu <[email protected] > > > > >>>> wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> I am trying to deal with the following scenario: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> A bunch of minor fragments are doing things in parallel. Each of > > >> them > > >>>> could > > >>>>>> skip some records. Since the downstream minor fragment needs to > know > > >>> the > > >>>>>> sum of skipped-record-counts (in order to just display or see if > the > > >>>> number > > >>>>>> exceeds the threshold) in the upstreams, each upstream minor > > >> fragment > > >>>> needs > > >>>>>> to pass this scalar with RecordBatch. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Since this seems impacting the protocol of RecordBatch, I am > looking > > >>> for > > >>>>>> some advice here. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Thanks. > > >>>>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > >
