Github user kayousterhout commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17166#discussion_r104778912
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala ---
@@ -2250,6 +2250,25 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends
Logging {
}
/**
+ * Kill a given task. It will be retried.
+ *
+ * @param taskId the task ID to kill
+ */
+ def killTask(taskId: Long): Unit = {
+ killTask(taskId, "cancelled")
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Kill a given task. It will be retried.
+ *
+ * @param taskId the task ID to kill
+ * @param reason the reason for killing the task, which should be a
short string
+ */
+ def killTask(taskId: Long, reason: String): Unit = {
--- End diff --
Given Mridul's points maybe killTaskAttempt is a better name? IMO
specifying "attempt" in the name makes it sound less permanent than killTask
(which to me sounds like it won't be retried)
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