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= Job Scheduling

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When jobs arrive at the destination node, they are submitted to a thread pool and scheduled for execution in random order.
However, you can change job ordering by configuring `CollisionSpi`.
The `CollisionSpi` interface provides a way to control how jobs are scheduled for processing on each node.

Ignite provides several implementations of the `CollisionSpi` interface:

- `FifoQueueCollisionSpi` — simple FIFO ordering in multiple threads. This implementation is used by default;
- `PriorityQueueCollisionSpi` — priority ordering;
- `JobStealingFailoverSpi` — use this implementation to enable link:distributed-computing/load-balancing#job-stealing[job stealing].

To enable a specific collision spi, change the `IgniteConfiguration.collisionSpi` property.

== FIFO Ordering

`FifoQueueCollisionSpi` provides FIFO ordering of jobs as they arrive. The jobs are executed in multiple threads. The number of threads is controlled by the `parallelJobsNumber` parameter. The default value equals 2 times the number of processor cores.

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== Priority Ordering

Use `PriorityQueueCollisionSpi` to assign priorities to individual jobs, so that jobs with higher priority are executed ahead of lower priority jobs. You can also specify the number of threads to process jobs.

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Task priorities are set in the link:distributed-computing/map-reduce#distributed-task-session[task session] via the `grid.task.priority` attribute. If no priority is assigned to a task, then the default priority of 0 is used.


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