[YARN-1725] RM should provide an easier way for the app to reject a bad allocation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: api, resourcemanager
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bikas Saha
• Created: 13/Feb/14 03:57
• Updated: 01/May/15 22:21

Description

Currently, if the app gets a bad allocation then it can release the container. However, the app now needs to request those resources again or else the RM will not give it a new container in lieu of the one just rejected. This makes the app writers life hard.