[jira] [Created] (FLINK-21436) Speed ​​up the restore of UnionListState

["fanrui (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

fanrui created FLINK-21436:
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             Summary: Speed ​​up the restore of UnionListState
                 Key: FLINK-21436
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-21436
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Runtime / Checkpointing, Runtime / State Backends
    Affects Versions: 1.13.0
            Reporter: fanrui


h1. 1. Problem introduction and cause analysis

Problem description: The duration of UnionListState restore under large concurrency is more than 2 minutes.
h2. the reason:


2000 subtasks write 2000 files during checkpoint, and each subtask needs to read 2000 files during restore.
2000*2000 = 4 million, so 4 million small files need to be read to hdfs during restore. HDFS has become a bottleneck, causing restore to be particularly time-consuming.
h1. 2. Optimize ideas

Under normal circumstances, the UnionListState state is relatively small. Typical usage scenario: Kafka offset information.
When restoring, JM can directly read all 2000 small files, merge UnionListState into a byte array and send it to all TMs to avoid frequent access to hdfs by TMs.
h1. 3. Benefits after optimization

Before optimization: 2000 concurrent, Kafka offset restore takes 90~130 s.
After optimization: 2000 concurrent, Kafka offset restore takes less than 1s.
h1.  4. Risk points

Too big UnionListState leads to too much pressure on JM.

Solution 1:
Add configuration and decide whether to enable this feature. The default is false, which means the old plan is used. When the user is set to true, JM will merge.

Solution 2:
The above configuration is not required, which is equivalent to being enabled by default. However, JM detects the size of the state before merge, and does not merge if it exceeds the threshold. The user can control the threshold size.

Note: Most of the scenarios where Flink uses UnionListState are Kafka offset (small state). In theory, most jobs are risk-free.



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