[SPARK-3002] Maintains a connection pool and reuse clients in BlockClientFactory

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Shuffle, Spark Core
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 13/Aug/14 06:38
• Updated: 04/Nov/14 08:39
• Resolved: 04/Nov/14 08:39

Description

To create a client manager that reuses clients (and connections).

Can also use IdleStateHandler to clean up idle connections.

http://netty.io/4.0/api/io/netty/handler/timeout/IdleStateHandler.html

Issue Links

• links to: Github pull request