Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#discussion_r38270665 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/runtime/taskmanager/TaskManager.scala --- @@ -411,6 +411,23 @@ class TaskManager( log.debug(s"Cannot find task to fail for execution ${executionID})") } + // stops a task + case StopTask(executionID) => + val task = runningTasks.get(executionID) + if (task != null) { + try { + task.stopExecution() --- End diff -- I assume that the stops should be idempotent. But I agree if we document and check that all `cancel` calls are non-blocking, then it should work as well.
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