GitHub user uce opened a pull request:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391

FLINK-7258 [network] Fix watermark configuration order

1. 1. Purpose
      This PR changes the order in which low and high watermarks are configured for Netty server child connections (high first). That way we avoid running into an `IllegalArgumentException` when the low watermark is larger than the high watermark (relevant if the configured memory segment size is larger than the default).

This situation surfaced only as a logged warning and the low watermark configuration was ignored.

1. 1. Changelog

• Configure high watermark before low watermark in `NettyServer`
• Configure high watermark before low watermark in `KvStateServer`

1. 1. Verifying this change

• The change is pretty trivial with an extended `NettyServerLowAndHighWatermarkTest` that now checks the expected watermarks.
• I didn't add a test for `KvStateServer`, because the watermarks can't be configured there manually.
• To verify, you can run `NettyServerLowAndHighWatermarkTest` with logging before and after this change and verify that no warning is logged anymore.

1. 1. Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts?

• Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): *no*
• The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: *no*
• The serializers: *no*
• The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): *no*
• Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: *no*

1. 1. Documentation

• Does this pull request introduce a new feature? *no*
• If yes, how is the feature documented? *not applicable*

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$ git pull https://github.com/uce/flink 7258-watermark_config

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391.patch

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This closes #4391

commit 73998ba1328d4bf61ee979ed327b0a684ed03aa7
Author: Ufuk Celebi <uce@apache.org>
Date: 2017-07-24T16:47:23Z

FLINK-7258 [network] Fix watermark configuration order

When configuring larger memory segment sizes, configuring the
low watermark before the high watermark may lead to an
IllegalArgumentException, because the low watermark will
temporarily be higher than the high watermark. It's necessary
to configure the high watermark before the low watermark.

For the queryable state server in KvStateServer I didn't
add an extra test as the watermarks cannot be configured there.

Github user zhijiangW commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391

@uce , really good to see this fix. I remembered meeting this problem in our production before and changed the sequence then.

Github user zentol commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391

+1.

Github user uce commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391

Thanks for the review @zhijiangW and @zentol. Merging this for `1.3` and `master`.

Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:

https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4391

Fixed in 96ccffd (release-1.3), 038a9ac (master).