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Aaron Davidson commented on SPARK-5124:
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I tend to prefer having explicit message.reply() semantics over Akka's weird 
ask. This is how the Transport layer implements RPCs, for instance: 
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/network/common/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/server/RpcHandler.java#L26

I might even supplement message with a reply with failure method, so exceptions 
can be relayed.

I have not found this mechanism to be a bottleneck at many thousands of 
requests per second.

> Standardize internal RPC interface
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-5124
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5124
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Spark Core
>            Reporter: Reynold Xin
>            Assignee: Shixiong Zhu
>         Attachments: Pluggable RPC - draft 1.pdf, Pluggable RPC - draft 2.pdf
>
>
> In Spark we use Akka as the RPC layer. It would be great if we can 
> standardize the internal RPC interface to facilitate testing. This will also 
> provide the foundation to try other RPC implementations in the future.



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