Github user kayousterhout commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2746#discussion_r18920574
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core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/ExecutorAllocationManager.scala
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+package org.apache.spark.scheduler
+
+import scala.collection.mutable
+
+import org.apache.spark.{Logging, SparkException}
+import org.apache.spark.scheduler.cluster.CoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend
+
+/**
+ * An agent that dynamically allocates and removes executors based on the
workload.
+ *
+ * The add policy depends on the number of pending tasks. If the queue of
pending tasks is not
+ * drained in N seconds, then new executors are added. If the queue
persists for another M
+ * seconds, then more executors are added and so on. The number added in
each round increases
+ * exponentially from the previous round until an upper bound on the
number of executors has
+ * been reached.
+ *
+ * The rationale for the exponential increase is twofold: (1) Executors
should be added slowly
+ * in the beginning in case the number of extra executors needed turns out
to be small. Otherwise,
+ * we may add more executors than we need just to remove them later. (2)
Executors should be added
+ * quickly over time in case the maximum number of executors is very high.
Otherwise, it will take
+ * a long time to ramp up under heavy workloads.
+ *
+ * The remove policy is simpler: If an executor has been idle for K
seconds (meaning it has not
+ * been scheduled to run any tasks), then it is removed. This requires
starting a timer on each
+ * executor instead of just starting a global one as in the add case.
+ *
+ * Both add and remove attempts are retried on failure up to a maximum
number of times.
+ *
+ * The relevant Spark properties include the following:
+ *
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The number of configuration options here is a little scary. Do we need all
of these things to be configurable? The first 3 seem like things we definitely
need. Some of the remaining things seem very tied to how long it takes a new
executor to start up, and I wonder if we could hardcode them for now, and make
them configurable later only if people find the defaults to be problematic.
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