Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1668#discussion_r108034229 --- Diff: flink-streaming-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/runtime/tasks/StreamIterationTail.java --- @@ -64,6 +70,22 @@ public void init() throws Exception { super.init(); } + @Override + protected boolean performCheckpoint(CheckpointMetaData checkpointMetaData, CheckpointOptions checkpointOptions, CheckpointMetrics checkpointMetrics) throws Exception { + LOG.debug("Starting checkpoint {} on task {}", checkpointMetaData.getCheckpointId(), getName()); + + synchronized (getCheckpointLock()) { + if (isRunning()) { + dataChannel.put(new Either.Right(new CheckpointBarrier(checkpointMetaData.getCheckpointId(), checkpointMetaData.getTimestamp(), checkpointOptions))); + getEnvironment().acknowledgeCheckpoint(checkpointMetaData.getCheckpointId(), checkpointMetrics); --- End diff -- Can the `IterationTailTask` contain operators as well, or is it always a task without operators? If it has operators, we cannot immediately acknowledge here, but need to delegate to superclass checkpoint method instead.
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