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Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli commented on YARN-1404:
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Stepping back a little, YARN does three things:
Central Scheduling - decides who gets to run and when and where they get to do
so
Deployment - ships bits across the cluster and runs container processes
Enforcement - monitors container processes to make sure they stay within
scheduled limits
The central scheduling part is the most valuable to a framework like Impala
because it allows it to truly share resources on a cluster with other
processing frameworks. The second two are helpful - they allow us to
standardize the way work is deployed on a Hadoop cluster - but they aren't
enabling things that's fundamentally impossible without them. While these will
simplify things in the long term and create a more cohesive platform, Impala
currently has little tangible to gain by doing deployment and enforcement
inside YARN.
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Don't agree with that characterization. The thing is to enable only central
scheduling, YARN has to give up its control over liveliness & enforcement and
needs to create a new level of trust. If there are alternative architectures
that will avoid losing that control, YARN will chose those options. The
question is whether external systems want to take that option or not.
> Enable external systems/frameworks to share resources with Hadoop leveraging
> Yarn resource scheduling
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> Key: YARN-1404
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1404
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: nodemanager
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Attachments: YARN-1404.patch
>
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> Currently Hadoop Yarn expects to manage the lifecycle of the processes its
> applications run workload in. External frameworks/systems could benefit from
> sharing resources with other Yarn applications while running their workload
> within long-running processes owned by the external framework (in other
> words, running their workload outside of the context of a Yarn container
> process).
> Because Yarn provides robust and scalable resource management, it is
> desirable for some external systems to leverage the resource governance
> capabilities of Yarn (queues, capacities, scheduling, access control) while
> supplying their own resource enforcement.
> Impala is an example of such system. Impala uses Llama
> (http://cloudera.github.io/llama/) to request resources from Yarn.
> Impala runs an impalad process in every node of the cluster, when a user
> submits a query, the processing is broken into 'query fragments' which are
> run in multiple impalad processes leveraging data locality (similar to
> Map-Reduce Mappers processing a collocated HDFS block of input data).
> The execution of a 'query fragment' requires an amount of CPU and memory in
> the impalad. As the impalad shares the host with other services (HDFS
> DataNode, Yarn NodeManager, Hbase Region Server) and Yarn Applications
> (MapReduce tasks).
> To ensure cluster utilization that follow the Yarn scheduler policies and it
> does not overload the cluster nodes, before running a 'query fragment' in a
> node, Impala requests the required amount of CPU and memory from Yarn. Once
> the requested CPU and memory has been allocated, Impala starts running the
> 'query fragment' taking care that the 'query fragment' does not use more
> resources than the ones that have been allocated. Memory is book kept per
> 'query fragment' and the threads used for the processing of the 'query
> fragment' are placed under a cgroup to contain CPU utilization.
> Today, for all resources that have been asked to Yarn RM, a (container)
> process must be started via the corresponding NodeManager. Failing to do
> this, will result on the cancelation of the container allocation
> relinquishing the acquired resource capacity back to the pool of available
> resources. To avoid this, Impala starts a dummy container process doing
> 'sleep 10y'.
> Using a dummy container process has its drawbacks:
> * the dummy container process is in a cgroup with a given number of CPU
> shares that are not used and Impala is re-issuing those CPU shares to another
> cgroup for the thread running the 'query fragment'. The cgroup CPU
> enforcement works correctly because of the CPU controller implementation (but
> the formal specified behavior is actually undefined).
> * Impala may ask for CPU and memory independent of each other. Some requests
> may be only memory with no CPU or viceversa. Because a container requires a
> process, complete absence of memory or CPU is not possible even if the dummy
> process is 'sleep', a minimal amount of memory and CPU is required for the
> dummy process.
> Because of this it is desirable to be able to have a container without a
> backing process.
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