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Piotr Nowojski commented on FLINK-18235: ---------------------------------------- {quote} The question here is that it's difficult for the Python Operator (implemented in Java) to know whether N4 has already been processed. {quote} Yep, that's the difficulty that I also see. I think there are ways how to solve it, but indeed they are not trivial to implement. As I remarked above, the problem we are discussing here is exactly the same as how to do unaligned checkpoints for Flink's Java operator "Op1" in the following job graph: {noformat} Src ---- network exchange ----> Op1 ---- network exchange ----> Sink {noformat} We can think of the data exchange between Flink's Python Operator and Python process as a different implementation of network exchange. > Improve the checkpoint strategy for Python UDF execution > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-18235 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18235 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: API / Python > Reporter: Dian Fu > Priority: Not a Priority > Labels: auto-deprioritized-major, stale-assigned > > Currently, when a checkpoint is triggered for the Python operator, all the > data buffered will be flushed to the Python worker to be processed. This will > increase the overall checkpoint time in case there are a lot of elements > buffered and Python UDF is slow. We should improve the checkpoint strategy to > improve this. One way to implement this is to control the number of data > buffered in the pipeline between Java/Python processes, similar to what > [FLIP-183|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-183%3A+Dynamic+buffer+size+adjustment] > does to control the number of data buffered in the network. We can also let > users to config the checkpoint strategy if needed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)