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Wangda Tan commented on YARN-4280:
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[~jlowe], agree, this is a hard problem to solve, allowing reservation beyond
queue's max capacity may bring more problems. As I mentioned above, maybe
preemption is one solution, preemption's target is to make under utilized queue
can eventually get something. We can minimize its side effect by tuning its
parameters. (Such as reduce number of containers preempted each round, and
disable preemption for some critical queues, etc.)
> CapacityScheduler reservations may not prevent indefinite postponement on a
> busy cluster
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> Key: YARN-4280
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-4280
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: capacity scheduler
> Affects Versions: 2.6.1, 2.8.0, 2.7.1
> Reporter: Kuhu Shukla
> Assignee: Kuhu Shukla
>
> Consider the following scenario:
> There are 2 queues A(25% of the total capacity) and B(75%), both can run at
> total cluster capacity. There are 2 applications, appX that runs on Queue A,
> always asking for 1G containers(non-AM) and appY runs on Queue B asking for 2
> GB containers.
> The user limit is high enough for the application to reach 100% of the
> cluster resource.
> appX is running at total cluster capacity, full with 1G containers releasing
> only one container at a time. appY comes in with a request of 2GB container
> but only 1 GB is free. Ideally, since appY is in the underserved queue, it
> has higher priority and should reserve for its 2 GB request. Since this
> request puts the alloc+reserve above total capacity of the cluster,
> reservation is not made. appX comes in with a 1GB request and since 1GB is
> still available, the request is allocated.
> This can continue indefinitely causing priority inversion.
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