Github user li-zhihui commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1131#issuecomment-46540777 @mridulm for example: 2 tasks(task_x, task_y), 2 executors(host1, host2) task_x.preferredLocations = [host2, host3, host1] task_y.preferredLocations = [host1, host3, host4] the task_x exist in penddingTasks array of host1, host2, host3 the task_y exist in pendinngTasks arrya of host1, host3, host4 if host1 pick up task_x & task_x is the last task of host2 then host2 can't get any host_preferred_task(and it must wait 3 seconds to get task_y) if host1 pick up task_y and leave task_x to host2 then both of host1 and host2 can get preferred task
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