That's not the only one. For example, the hash shuffle manager has been off by default since Spark 1.2, and we'd like to remove it in 2.0: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12423
How difficult it is to just change the package name to say v2? On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Mark Grover <m...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > If you don't use Spark on YARN, you probably don't need to read further. > > Here's the *user scenario*: > There are going to be folks who may be interested in running two versions > of Spark (say Spark 1.6.x and Spark 2.x) on the same YARN cluster. > > And, here's the *problem*: > That's all fine, should work well. However, there's one problem that > relates to the YARN shuffle service > <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/common/network-yarn/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/yarn/YarnShuffleService.java>. > This service is run by the YARN Node Managers on all nodes of the cluster > that have YARN NMs as an auxillary service > <https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/PluggableShuffleAndPluggableSort.html> > . > > The key question here is - > Option A: Should the user be running 2 shuffle services - one for Spark > 1.6.x and one for Spark 2.x? > OR > Option B: Should the user be running only 1 shuffle service that services > both the Spark 1.6.x and Spark 2.x installs? This will likely have to be > the Spark 1.6.x shuffle service (while ensuring it's forward compatible > with Spark 2.x). > > *Discussion of above options:* > A few things to note about the shuffle service: > 1. Looking at the commit history, there aren't a whole of lot of changes > that go into the shuffle service, rarely ones that are incompatible. > There's only one incompatible change > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12130> that's been made to > the shuffle service, as far as I can tell, and that too, seems fairly > cosmetic. > 2. Shuffle services for 1.6.x and 2.x serve very similar purpose (to > provide shuffle blocks) and can easily be just one service that does it, > even on a YARN cluster that runs both Spark 1.x and Spark 2.x. > 3. The shuffle service is not version-spaced. This means that, the way the > code is currently, if we were to drop the jars for Spark1 and Spark2's > shuffle service in YARN NM's classpath, YARN NM won't be able to start both > services. It would arbitrarily pick one service to start (based on what > appears on the classpath first). Also, the service name is hardcoded > <https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/common/network-yarn/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/network/yarn/YarnShuffleService.java#L96> > in Spark code and that name is also not version-spaced. > > Option A is arguably cleaner but it's more operational overhead and some > code relocation/shading/version-spacing/name-spacing to make it work (due > to #3 above), potentially to not a whole lot of value (given #2 above). > > Option B is simpler, lean and more operationally efficient. However, that > requires that we as a community, keep Spark 1's shuffle service forward > compatible with Spark 2 i.e. don't break compatibility between Spark1's and > Spark2's shuffle service. We could even add a test (mima?) to assert that > during the life time of Spark2. If we do go down that way, we should revert > SPARK-12130 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12130> - the > only backwards incompatible change made to Spark2 shuffle service so far. > > My personal vote goes towards Option B and I think reverting SPARK-12130 > is ok. What do others think? > > Thanks! > Mark > >
