zhijiang created FLINK-10653:
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             Summary: Propose of external shuffle service for batch jobs
                 Key: FLINK-10653
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10653
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Network
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
            Reporter: zhijiang
            Assignee: zhijiang


The network shuffle behavior for batch jobs in Flink can be improved in two 
dimensions:
 * *ShuffleService:* Shuffle service is used for transporting upstream’s 
outputs to the downstream side. The {{TaskExecutor}} takes the role of shuffle 
service unified for both stream and batch jobs currently.

 * The output is consumable only when the upstream task finishes for blocking 
mode. The {{TaskExecutor}} can not exit to release resources even though there 
are no tasks running, because it should responsible for transferring data via 
shuffle service. This has the bad effects in resource dynamic or sensitive 
scenarios.

 
 * *ResultPartition:* there are two types of subpartitions currently for the 
outputs. The {{PipelinedSubPartition}} is used for stream jobs and the 
{{SpillableSubpartition}} is used for batch jobs in blocking mode.

 * The {{SpillableSubpartition}} generates one separate persistent file for 
every subpartition. This partition-hash mode is not IO friendly for special 
scenarios, i.e. large number of subpartitions with little data in every 
subpartition. And it may exceed the inode limits for large scale jobs.
 * The persistent files would be deleted immediately after reading to transport 
layer. If the downstream task fails during consumption, all the related 
upstream tasks have to be restarted to reproduce the outputs.

 

We propose three overall changes:
 * Mechanism and setting of external shuffle service
 * Output sort&merge persistent files for new {{ResultPartitionType}}
 * Delete persistent output files via notification or ttl

 

The detail design doc would be submitted later.



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