Github user shivaram commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1309#issuecomment-49808077 Its worthwhile to keep in mind https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1056 which adds partial updates to TaskMetrics. Another reason why unifying these things might be useful.
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