Practical Size-based Scheduling for MapReduce Workloads

We present the Hadoop Fair Sojourn Protocol (HFSP) scheduler, which implements a size-based scheduling discipline for Hadoop. The benefits of size-based scheduling disciplines are well recognized in a variety of contexts (computer networks, operating systems, etc...), yet, their practical implementa...

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Hauptverfasser: Pastorelli, Mario, Barbuzzi, Antonio, Carra, Damiano, Dell'Amico, Matteo, Michiardi, Pietro
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Zusammenfassung:We present the Hadoop Fair Sojourn Protocol (HFSP) scheduler, which implements a size-based scheduling discipline for Hadoop. The benefits of size-based scheduling disciplines are well recognized in a variety of contexts (computer networks, operating systems, etc...), yet, their practical implementation for a system such as Hadoop raises a number of important challenges. With HFSP, which is available as an open-source project, we address issues related to job size estimation, resource management and study the effects of a variety of preemption strategies. Although the architecture underlying HFSP is suitable for any size-based scheduling discipline, in this work we revisit and extend the Fair Sojourn Protocol, which solves problems related to job starvation that affect FIFO, Processor Sharing and a range of size-based disciplines. Our experiments, in which we compare HFSP to standard Hadoop schedulers, pinpoint at a significant decrease in average job sojourn times - a metric that accounts for the total time a job spends in the system, including waiting and serving times - for realistic workloads that we generate according to production traces available in literature.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1302.2749