[YARN-3923] Introduce adaptive heartbeat between RM and AM

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: api, applications, resourcemanager
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Xiaodi Ke
• Created: 14/Jul/15 15:31
• Updated: 13/Sep/15 01:54

Description

Currently, the communication between RM and AM are based on pull-based heartbeat protocol. Along with AM heartbeat, AM sends the container requests to RM and retrieves the new allocated containers. Also, it will update RM's view of resource requests of applications. How frequently AM sends the heartbeat will impact the task throughput and latency of YARN scheduler. Although the heartbeat interval can be configured in yarn-stie.xml (mapred-site.xml for MR AppMaster), if it is configured too short, it will increase the load of RM and bring unnecessary overhead.

We propose the adaptive heartbeat between RM and AM to achieve a balance between updating AM's info promptly and minimizing the overhead of extra heartbeats. With adaptive heartbeat, AM still honors the current heartbeat interval and sends the heartbeat regularly. However, a heartbeat is triggered as soon as a container request is made. To prevent AM sending heartbeat too frequently, a minimum interval can be used to throttle the frequency of heartbeat.

Issue Links

• relates to: YARN-3922 Introduce adaptive heartbeat between RM and NM