[jira] [Created] (YARN-11073) CapacityScheduler DRF Preemption kicked in incorrectly for low-capacity queues

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

Jian Chen created YARN-11073:
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             Summary: CapacityScheduler DRF Preemption kicked in incorrectly for low-capacity queues
                 Key: YARN-11073
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-11073
             Project: Hadoop YARN
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: capacity scheduler, scheduler preemption
    Affects Versions: 2.10.1
            Reporter: Jian Chen


When running a Hive job in a low-capacity queue on an idle cluster, preemption kicked in to preempt job containers even though there's no other job running and competing for resources. 

Let's take this scenario as an example:
 * cluster resource : <Memory:168GB, VCores:48>
 ** {_}*queue_low*{_}: min_capacity 1%
 ** queue_mid: min_capacity 19%
 ** queue_high: min_capacity 80%
 * CapacityScheduler with DRF

During the fifo preemption candidates selection process, the _preemptableAmountCalculator_ needs to first "{_}computeIdealAllocation{_}" which depends on each queue's guaranteed/min capacity. A queue's guaranteed capacity is currently calculated as "Resources.multiply(totalPartitionResource, absCapacity)", so the guaranteed capacity of queue_low is:
 * {_}*queue_low*{_}: <Memory: (168*0.01)GB, VCores:(48*0.01)> = <Memory:1.68GB, VCores:0.48>, but since the Resource object takes only Long values, these Doubles values get casted into Long, and then the final result becomes *<Memory:1GB, VCores:0>*

Because the guaranteed capacity of queue_low is 0, its normalized guaranteed capacity based on active queues is also 0 based on the current algorithm in "{_}resetCapacity{_}". This eventually leads to the continuous preemption of job containers running in {_}*queue_low*{_}. 

In order to work around this corner case, I made a small patch around "{_}resetCapacity{_}" to consider a couple new scenarios. 
 # if the sum of absoluteCapacity/minCapacity of all active queues is zero, we should normalize their guaranteed capacity evenly
{code:java}
1.0f / num_of_queues{code}

 # if the sum of pre-normalized guaranteed capacity values ({_}MB or VCores{_}) of all active queues is zero, meaning we might have several queues like queue_low whose capacity value got casted into 0, we should normalize evenly as well like the first scenario (if they are all tiny, it really makes no big difference, for example, 1% vs 1.2%).
 # if one of the active queues has a zero pre-normalized guaranteed capacity value but its absoluteCapacity/minCapacity is *not* zero, then we should normalize based on the weight of their configured queue absoluteCapacity/minCapacity. This is to make sure _*queue_low*_ gets a small but fair normalized value when _*queue_mid*_ is also active. 
{code:java}
minCapacity / (sum_of_min_capacity_of_active_queues)
{code}
This is how I currently work around this issue, it might need someone who's more familiar in this component to do a systematic review of the entire preemption process to fix it properly. Maybe we can always apply the weight-based approach using absoluteCapacity, or maybe we can rewrite the code of Resource to remove the casting...



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