Hi all, When running the batch WordCount example, I configured the job execution mode as BATCH_FORCED, and failover-strategy as region, I manually injected some errors to let the execution fail in different phases. In some cases, the job could recovery from failover and became succeed, but in some cases, the job retried several times and failed.
Example: - If the failure occurred before task read data, e.g., failed before invokable.invoke() in Task.java, failover could succeed. - If the failure occurred after task having read data, failover did not work. Problem diagnose: Running the example described before, each ExecutionVertex is defined as a restart region, and the ResultPartitionType between executions is BLOCKING. Thus, SpillableSubpartition and SpillableSubpartitionView are used to write/read shuffle data, and data blocks are described as BufferConsumers stored in a list called buffers, when task requires input data from SpillableSubpartitionView, BufferConsumers are REMOVED from buffers. Thus, when failures occurred after having read data, some BufferConsumers have already released. Although tasks retried, the input data is incomplete. Fix Proposal: - BufferConsumer should not be removed from buffers until the consumed ExecutionVertex is terminal. - SpillableSubpartition should not be released until the consumed ExecutionVertex is terminal. - SpillableSubpartition could creates multi SpillableSubpartitionViews, each of which is corresponding to a ExecutionAttempt. Best, Bo
