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Motivation
In order to support the reactive mode (FLIP-159) we need a different type of scheduler which first announces the required resources and only after having received the resources decides on the actual parallelism with which to execute the job. This has the benefit that this scheduler can schedule jobs if not all required resources are fulfilled. Moreover, it allows to continue executing jobs even after TaskManagers have been lost.
Proposed Changes
The declarative scheduler will first work for streaming jobs only. This will simplify things considerably because we always have to schedule all operators. Moreover, by treating every failure as a global failover which restarts the whole topology, we can further simplify the scheduler. This failover behaviour is the default for many streaming topologies anyways if they don't consist of disjunct graphs. Given these assumptions we want to develop the following scheduler:
The scheduler takes the JobGraph for which it will first calculate the desired resources. After declaring these resources, the scheduler will wait until the available resources have stabilised. Once the resources are stabilised the scheduler should be able to decide on the actual parallelism of the job. Once the parallelism is decided and the executions are matched with the available slots, the scheduler deploys the executions.
Whenever a fault occurs, we will fail the whole job and try to restart it. Restarting works by cancelling all deployed tasks and then restarting the scheduling of the JobGraph following the same code paths as the initial scheduling operation.
An obvious regression of this implementation over the existing pipelined region scheduler is that we are always restarting the whole topology. For embarrassingly parallel jobs this might not be necessary since the running tasks don’t need to be reset to the latest checkpoint. Supporting partial failover would be the first extension of the proposed scheduler. One way to support partial failovers is to introduce a distinction between global and local failovers.
- Global failover: Restart of the whole topology which allows to change the parallelism of the job
- Local failover: Restart of a subset of the executions which does not change the parallelism of the operator
If the system cannot recover from a local failover because it does not have enough slots available, it must be escalated which makes it a global failover. A global failover will allow the system to rescale the whole job.