[jira] [Created] (YARN-1996) Provide alternative policies for UNHEALTHY nodes.

["Gera Shegalov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Gera Shegalov created YARN-1996:
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             Summary: Provide alternative policies for UNHEALTHY nodes.
                 Key: YARN-1996
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1996
             Project: Hadoop YARN
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: nodemanager, scheduler
    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
            Reporter: Gera Shegalov
            Assignee: Gera Shegalov


Currently, UNHEALTHY nodes can significantly prolong execution of large expensive jobs as demonstrated by MAPREDUCE-5817, and downgrade the cluster health even further due to [positive feedback|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback]. A container set that might have deemed the node unhealthy in the first place starts spreading across the cluster because the current node is declared unusable and all its containers are killed and rescheduled on different nodes.

To mitigate this, we experiment with a patch that allows containers already running on a node turning UNHEALTHY to complete (drain) whereas no new container can be assigned to it until it turns healthy again.

This mechanism can also be used for graceful decommissioning of NM. To this end, we have to write a health script  such that it can deterministically report UNHEALTHY. For example with 
{code}
if [ -e $1 ] ; then                                                                
  echo ERROR Node decommmissioning via health script hack                          
fi 
{code}

In the current version patch, the behavior is controlled by a boolean property {{yarn.nodemanager.unheathy.drain.containers}}. More versatile policies are possible in the future work. Currently, the health state of a node is binary determined based on the disk checker and the health script ERROR outputs. However, we can as well interpret health script output similar to java logging levels (one of which is ERROR) such as WARN, FATAL. Each level can then be treated differently. E.g.,
- FATAL:  unusable like today 
- ERROR: drain
- WARN: halve the node capacity.
complimented with some equivalence rules such as 3 WARN messages == ERROR,  2*ERROR == FATAL, etc. 









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