Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/860#discussion_r13170395
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/BlockManager.scala
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@@ -329,8 +329,26 @@ private[spark] class BlockManager(
* never deletes (recent) items.
*/
def getLocalFromDisk(blockId: BlockId, serializer: Serializer):
Option[Iterator[Any]] = {
- diskStore.getValues(blockId, serializer).orElse(
- sys.error("Block " + blockId + " not found on disk, though it should
be"))
+
+ // Reducer may need to read many local shuffle blocks and will wrap
them into Iterators
+ // at the beginning. The wrapping will cost some memory(compression
instance
+ // initialization, etc.). Reducer read shuffle blocks one by one so we
could do the
+ // wrapping lazily to save memory.
+ class LazyProxyIterator(f: => Iterator[Any]) extends Iterator[Any] {
+
+ lazy val proxy = f
+
+ override def hasNext: Boolean = proxy.hasNext
+
+ override def next(): Any = proxy.next()
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Small note on style, for this short a class you don't need an empty line
before each method.
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