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Piotr Nowojski commented on FLINK-18235:
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The question here is that it's difficult for the Python Operator (implemented 
in Java) to know whether N4 has already been processed.
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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.



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