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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-9913:
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NicoK commented on a change in pull request #6417: [FLINK-9913][runtime] 
Improve output serialization only once in RecordWriter
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6417#discussion_r212951771
 
 

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 File path: 
flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/api/writer/RecordWriter.java
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 @@ -87,62 +86,71 @@ public RecordWriter(ResultPartitionWriter writer, 
ChannelSelector<T> channelSele
 
                this.numChannels = writer.getNumberOfSubpartitions();
 
-               /*
-                * The runtime exposes a channel abstraction for the produced 
results
-                * (see {@link ChannelSelector}). Every channel has an 
independent
-                * serializer.
-                */
-               this.serializers = new SpanningRecordSerializer[numChannels];
+               this.serializer = new SpanningRecordSerializer<T>();
                this.bufferBuilders = new Optional[numChannels];
                for (int i = 0; i < numChannels; i++) {
-                       serializers[i] = new SpanningRecordSerializer<T>();
                        bufferBuilders[i] = Optional.empty();
                }
        }
 
        public void emit(T record) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+               serializer.serializeRecord(record);
+
                for (int targetChannel : channelSelector.selectChannels(record, 
numChannels)) {
-                       sendToTarget(record, targetChannel);
+                       copyToTarget(targetChannel);
                }
+
+               // Make sure we don't hold onto the large intermediate 
serialization buffer for too long
+               serializer.prune();
        }
 
        /**
         * This is used to broadcast Streaming Watermarks in-band with records. 
This ignores
         * the {@link ChannelSelector}.
         */
        public void broadcastEmit(T record) throws IOException, 
InterruptedException {
+               serializer.serializeRecord(record);
+
                for (int targetChannel = 0; targetChannel < numChannels; 
targetChannel++) {
-                       sendToTarget(record, targetChannel);
+                       copyToTarget(targetChannel);
                }
+
+               serializer.prune();
        }
 
        /**
         * This is used to send LatencyMarks to a random target channel.
         */
        public void randomEmit(T record) throws IOException, 
InterruptedException {
-               sendToTarget(record, rng.nextInt(numChannels));
-       }
+               serializer.serializeRecord(record);
 
-       private void sendToTarget(T record, int targetChannel) throws 
IOException, InterruptedException {
-               RecordSerializer<T> serializer = serializers[targetChannel];
+               copyToTarget(rng.nextInt(numChannels));
 
-               SerializationResult result = serializer.addRecord(record);
+               serializer.prune();
+       }
 
+       private void copyToTarget(int targetChannel) throws IOException, 
InterruptedException {
+               // We should reset the initial position of the intermediate 
serialization buffer before
+               // copying, so the serialization results can be copied to 
multiple target buffers.
+               serializer.reset();
+
+               BufferBuilder bufferBuilder = getBufferBuilder(targetChannel);
+               SerializationResult result = 
serializer.copyToBufferBuilder(bufferBuilder);
                while (result.isFullBuffer()) {
-                       if (tryFinishCurrentBufferBuilder(targetChannel, 
serializer)) {
-                               // If this was a full record, we are done. Not 
breaking
-                               // out of the loop at this point will lead to 
another
-                               // buffer request before breaking out (that 
would not be
-                               // a problem per se, but it can lead to stalls 
in the
-                               // pipeline).
-                               if (result.isFullRecord()) {
-                                       break;
-                               }
+                       tryFinishCurrentBufferBuilder(targetChannel);
 
 Review comment:
   actually, here, we do not only know that the buffer builder is present, we 
also already have its reference (in contrast to 
`tryFinishCurrentBufferBuilder()`) and don't need to update the 
`bufferBuilders` field until after the `while` loop - I'm not sure whether this 
is worth optimising, though (@pnowojski?)

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> Improve output serialization only once in RecordWriter
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-9913
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9913
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Network
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.0
>            Reporter: zhijiang
>            Assignee: zhijiang
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
>
>
> Currently the {{RecordWriter}} emits output into multi channels via 
> {{ChannelSelector}}  or broadcasts output to all channels directly. Each 
> channel has a separate {{RecordSerializer}} for serializing outputs, that 
> means the output will be serialized as many times as the number of selected 
> channels.
> As we know, data serialization is a high cost operation, so we can get good 
> benefits by improving the serialization only once.
> I would suggest the following changes for realizing it.
>  # Only one {{RecordSerializer}} is created in {{RecordWriter}} for all the 
> channels.
>  # The output is serialized into the intermediate data buffer only once for 
> different channels.
>  # The intermediate serialization results are copied into different 
> {{BufferBuilder}}s for different channels.



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