Details
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Sub-task
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Status: In Progress
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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3.0.0-alpha1
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Description
MapTasks need to know whether or not they should start node-level combiner agaist outputs of mapper on their node.
The new umbilical RPC, getAggregationTargets(), is used to get outputs to be aggregated on the node. The definition as follows:
AggregationTarget getAggregationTargets(TaskAttemptID aggregator) throws IOException;
AggregationTarget is a abstraction class of array of TaskAttemptID to be aggregated.