[jira] [Created] (FLINK-3261) Tasks should eagerly report back when they cannot start a checkpoint

["Stephan Ewen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stephan Ewen created FLINK-3261:
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             Summary: Tasks should eagerly report back when they cannot start a checkpoint
                 Key: FLINK-3261
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3261
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Distributed Runtime
    Affects Versions: 0.10.1
            Reporter: Stephan Ewen
            Priority: Blocker
             Fix For: 1.0.0


With very fast checkpoint intervals (few 100 msecs), it can happen that a Task is not ready to start a checkpoint by the time it gets the first checkpoint trigger message.

If some other tasks are ready already and commence a checkpoint, the stream alignment will make the non-participating task wait until the checkpoint expires (default: 10 minutes).

A simple way to fix this is that tasks report back when they could not start a checkpoint. The checkpoint coordinator can then abort that checkpoint and unblock the streams by starting new checkpoint (where all tasks will participate).

An optimization would be to send a special "abort checkpoints barrier" that tells the barrier buffers for stream alignment to unblock a checkpoint.




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