+1 I like where this is headed.

One question: during restore, it could happen that a new task manager is
configured with fewer or smaller buffers than was previously the case. How
will this be handled?

David


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:31 AM Arvid Heise <ar...@ververica.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> it's like you said. The first version will not support rescaling and mostly
> addresses the concerns about making little to no progress because of
> frequent crashes.
>
> The main reason is that we cannot guarantee the ordering of non-keyed data
> (and even keyed data in some weird cases) when rescaling currently. We have
> a general concept to address that, which would also enable dynamic
> rescaling in the future, but that would make the changes even bigger and we
> would not have any version ready for 1.11.
>
> The current plan, of course, is to continue improving unaligned checkpoints
> immediately after release, such that we have the full feature set for 1.12.
> Potentially, unaligned checkpoints (with timeouts) would even become the
> default option.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:14 PM Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > Thanks for putting this together, looking forward to the experimental
> > support in the next release.
> >
> > One clarification: since the MVP won't support rescaling, does it imply
> > that savepoints will always use aligned checkpointing? If so, this would
> > still block the user from taking a savepoint and resume with increased
> > parallelism to resolve a prolonged/permanent backpressure condition?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:33 AM Arvid Heise <ar...@ververica.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would like to start the vote for FLIP-76 [1], which is discussed and
> > > reached a consensus in the discussion thread [2].
> > >
> > > The vote will be open until March. 13th (72h), unless there is an
> > objection
> > > or not enough votes.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Arvid
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-76%3A+Unaligned+Checkpoints
> > > [2]
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-FLIP-76-Unaligned-checkpoints-td33651.html
> > >
> >
>

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