Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/892#issuecomment-45175977
I see, we might be able to fix that as a separate issue. We could count
pendingTasksWithNoPrefs as being at a "special" level we try only after we try
the real locality levels. But that seems independent of this patch, maybe you
can report it as a separate JIRA.
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