Minor Description
The "local metrics" test asserts that tasks should take more than 1ms on average to complete, even though a code comment notes that this is a small test and tasks may finish faster. I've been seeing some "failures" here on fast systems that finish these tasks quite quickly.
There are a few ways forward here:
1. Disable this test.
2. Relax this check.
3. Implement sub-millisecond granularity for task times throughout Spark.
4. (Imran Rashid's suggestion) Add buffer time by, say, having the task reference a partition that implements a custom Externalizable.readExternal, which always waits 1ms before returning.
