XComp commented on PR #24309:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/24309#issuecomment-1945921834

   I looked into the missing synchronization for the 
`FineGrainedSlotManager#started` field: AFAIU, we're relying on all the methods 
which touch `#started` to run in the same thread (which is the 
`ResourceManager`'s main thread). But as far as I can see, there's nothing 
documenting this assumption. 
   
   I'd like improve the code in this regards to make this relationship clearer 
to code readers as part of FLINK-34427. I see two options:
   * Make the implementation more robust in a sense that it's requiring certain 
methods to be executed in the passed (i.e. RM) main thread.
   * Documenting that the `FineGrainedSlotManager` is not thread-safe and is 
required to run in a single thread to allow sequential state transitioning in 
the JavaDoc.
   
   In the current version of this PR, I went for the first option. Two test 
failures popped in the [first CI 
run](https://dev.azure.com/apache-flink/98463496-1af2-4620-8eab-a2ecc1a2e6fe/_build/results?buildId=57529).
 `ResourceManagerTest.testDisconnectTaskManager` failed due to the main-thread 
change. The ActiveResourceManager test failure seems to be unrelated. I created 
FLINK-34447 for that one.


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