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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-21425:
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[~zsxwing] if that's true, doesn't it imply that multiple threads are accessing 
it? They can't be writing, I think, or else the results of 
Long/DoubleAccumulator would be wrong, regularly. I wonder if the contention 
was related to synchronizing reads? which isn't as essential here.

I also feel like I'm missing something but am not yet sure why synchronization 
isn't necessary here.

> LongAccumulator, DoubleAccumulator not threadsafe
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-21425
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21425
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Spark Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Ryan Williams
>            Priority: Minor
>
> [AccumulatorV2 
> docs|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.2.0/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AccumulatorV2.scala#L42-L43]
>  acknowledge that accumulators must be concurrent-read-safe, but afaict they 
> must also be concurrent-write-safe.
> The same docs imply that {{Int}} and {{Long}} meet either/both of these 
> criteria, when afaict they do not.
> Relatedly, the provided 
> [LongAccumulator|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.2.0/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AccumulatorV2.scala#L291]
>  and 
> [DoubleAccumulator|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/v2.2.0/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/AccumulatorV2.scala#L370]
>  are not thread-safe, and should be expected to behave undefinedly when 
> multiple concurrent tasks on the same executor write to them.
> [Here is a repro repo|https://github.com/ryan-williams/spark-bugs/tree/accum] 
> with some simple applications that demonstrate incorrect results from 
> {{LongAccumulator}}'s.



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