Jiayi Liao created FLINK-23208: ---------------------------------- Summary: Late processing timers need to wait 1ms at least to be fired Key: FLINK-23208 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-23208 Project: Flink Issue Type: Bug Components: Runtime / Task Affects Versions: 1.11.0 Reporter: Jiayi Liao
The problem is from the codes below: ``` public static long getProcessingTimeDelay(long processingTimestamp, long currentTimestamp) { // delay the firing of the timer by 1 ms to align the semantics with watermark. A watermark // T says we won't see elements in the future with a timestamp smaller or equal to T. // With processing time, we therefore need to delay firing the timer by one ms. return Math.max(processingTimestamp - currentTimestamp, 0) + 1; } ``` Assuming a Flink job creates 1 timer per millionseconds, and is able to consume 1 timer/ms. Here is what will happen: * Timestmap1(1st ms): timer1 is registered and will be triggered on Timestamp2. * Timestamp2(2nd ms): timer2 is registered and timer1 is triggered * Timestamp3(3rd ms): timer3 is registered and timer1 is consumed, after this, {{InternalTimerServiceImpl}} registers next timer, which is timer2, and timer2 will be triggered on Timestamp4(wait 1ms at least) * Timestamp4(4th ms): timer4 is registered and timer2 is triggered * Timestamp5(5th ms): timer5 is registered and timer2 is consumed, after this, {{InternalTimerServiceImpl}} registers next timer, which is timer3, and timer3 will be triggered on Timestamp6(wait 1ms at least) As we can see here, the ability of the Flink job is consuming 1 timer/ms, but it's actually able to consume 0.5 timer/ms. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)