[YARN-3922] Introduce adaptive heartbeat between RM and NM

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: nodemanager, resourcemanager
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Xiaodi Ke
• Created: 14/Jul/15 15:21
• Updated: 13/Sep/15 01:54

Description

Currently, the communication between RM and NM are based on pull-based heartbeat protocol. Along with the NM heartbeat, it updates the status of containers (i.e. FINISHED container). This also updates the RM’s view of available resource and triggers scheduling. How frequently the NM sends the heartbeat will impact the task throughput and latency of YARN scheduler. Although the heartbeat interval can be configured in yarn-stie.xml, it will increase the load of RM and bring unnecessary overhead if the interval is configured too short.

We propose the adaptive heartbeat between RM and NM to achieve a balance between updating NM’s info promptly and minimizing the overhead of extra heartbeats. With adaptive heartbeat, NM still honors the current heartbeat interval and sends the heartbeat regularly. However, a heartbeat will be triggered as soon as any container status is changed. Also a minimum interval can be configured to prevent NM from sending heartbeat too frequently.

Issue Links

• is related to: YARN-3923 Introduce adaptive heartbeat between RM and AM