hadoop-mapreduce/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TaskScheduler.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.mapred;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.server.jobtracker.TaskTracker;

/**
 * Used by a {@link JobTracker} to schedule {@link Task}s on
 * {@link TaskTracker}s.
 * <p>
 * {@link TaskScheduler}s typically use one or more
 * {@link JobInProgressListener}s to receive notifications about jobs.
 * <p>
 * It is the responsibility of the {@link TaskScheduler}
 * to initialize tasks for a job, by calling {@link JobInProgress#initTasks()}
 * between the job being added (when
 * {@link JobInProgressListener#jobAdded(JobInProgress)} is called)
 * and tasks for that job being assigned (by
 * {@link #assignTasks(TaskTracker)}).
 * @see EagerTaskInitializationListener
 */
abstract class TaskScheduler implements Configurable {

  protected Configuration conf;
  protected TaskTrackerManager taskTrackerManager;
  
  public Configuration getConf() {
    return conf;
  }

  public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
    this.conf = conf;
  }

  public synchronized void setTaskTrackerManager(
      TaskTrackerManager taskTrackerManager) {
    this.taskTrackerManager = taskTrackerManager;
  }
  
  /**
   * Lifecycle method to allow the scheduler to start any work in separate
   * threads.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public void start() throws IOException {
    // do nothing
  }
  
  /**
   * Lifecycle method to allow the scheduler to stop any work it is doing.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public void terminate() throws IOException {
    // do nothing
  }

  /**
   * Returns the tasks we'd like the TaskTracker to execute right now.
   * 
   * @param taskTracker The TaskTracker for which we're looking for tasks.
   * @return A list of tasks to run on that TaskTracker, possibly empty.
   */
  public abstract List<Task> assignTasks(TaskTracker taskTracker)
  throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns a collection of jobs in an order which is specific to 
   * the particular scheduler.
   * @param queueName
   * @return
   */
  public abstract Collection<JobInProgress> getJobs(String queueName);

  /**
   * Get the {@link QueueRefresher} for this scheduler. By default, no
   * {@link QueueRefresher} exists for a scheduler and is set to null.
   * Schedulers need to return an instance of {@link QueueRefresher} if they
   * wish to refresh their queue-configuration when {@link QueueManager}
   * refreshes its own queue-configuration via an administrator request.
   * 
   * @return
   */
  QueueRefresher getQueueRefresher() {
    return null;
  }
}