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[jira] [Assigned] (SPARK-23249) Improve partition bin-filling algorithm to have less skew and fewer partitions

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Apache Spark reassigned SPARK-23249:
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    Assignee:     (was: Apache Spark)

> Improve partition bin-filling algorithm to have less skew and fewer partitions
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>                 Key: SPARK-23249
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23249
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
>            Reporter: Glen Takahashi
>            Priority: Major
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> Change DataSourceScanExec so that when grouping blocks together into partitions, also checks the end of the sorted list of splits to more efficiently fill out partitions.
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> h2. Rationale
> The current bin-packing method of next-fit descending for blocks into partitions is sub-optimal in a lot of cases and will result in extra partitions, un-even distribution of block-counts across partitions, and un-even distribution of partition sizes.
> As an example, 128 files ranging from 1MB, 2MB,...127MB,128MB. will result in 82 partitions with the current algorithm, but only 64 using this algorithm. Also in this example, the max # of blocks per partition in NFD is 13, while in this algorithm is is 2.
> More generally, running a simulation of 1000 runs using 128MB blocksize, between 1-1000 normally distributed file sizes between 1-500Mb, you can see an improvement of approx 5% reduction of partition counts, and a large reduction in standard deviation of blocks per partition.
> This algorithm also runs in O(n) time as NFD does, and in every case is strictly better results than NFD.
> Overall, the more even distribution of blocks across partitions and therefore reduced partition counts should result in a small but significant performance increase across the board



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