Load Balancing

GridGain automatically load balances jobs produced by a compute task as well as individual tasks submitted via the distributed computing API. Individual tasks submitted via IgniteCompute.run(…) and other compute methods are treated as tasks producing a single job.

By default, GridGain uses a round-robin algorithm (RoundRobinLoadBalancingSpi), which distributes jobs in sequential order across the nodes specified for the compute task.

The load balancing algorithm is controlled by the IgniteConfiguration.loadBalancingSpi property.

Round-Robin Load Balancing

RoundRobinLoadBalancingSpi iterates through the available nodes in a round-robin fashion and picks the next sequential node. The available nodes are defined when you get the compute instance through which you execute your tasks.

Round-Robin load balancing supports two modes of operation: per-task and global.

When configured in per-task mode, the implementation picks a random node at the beginning of every task execution and then sequentially iterates through all the nodes in the topology starting from that node. For cases when the split size of a task is equal to the number of nodes, this mode guarantees that all nodes will participate in job execution.

When configured in global mode, a single sequential queue of nodes is maintained for all tasks and the next node in the queue is picked every time. In this mode (unlike in per-task mode), it is possible that even if the split size of a task is equal to the number of nodes, some jobs within the same task will be assigned to the same node whenever multiple tasks are executing concurrently.

The global mode is used by default.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
    <bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration">
        <property name="includeEventTypes">
            <list>
                <!--these events are required for the per-task mode-->
                <util:constant static-field="org.apache.ignite.events.EventType.EVT_TASK_FINISHED"/>
                <util:constant static-field="org.apache.ignite.events.EventType.EVT_TASK_FAILED"/>
                <util:constant static-field="org.apache.ignite.events.EventType.EVT_JOB_MAPPED"/>
            </list>
        </property>

        <property name="loadBalancingSpi">
            <bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.loadbalancing.roundrobin.RoundRobinLoadBalancingSpi">
                <!-- Activate the per-task round-robin mode. -->
                <property name="perTask" value="true"/>
            </bean>
        </property>

    </bean>
</beans>

RoundRobinLoadBalancingSpi spi = new RoundRobinLoadBalancingSpi();
spi.setPerTask(true);

IgniteConfiguration cfg = new IgniteConfiguration();
// these events are required for the per-task mode
cfg.setIncludeEventTypes(EventType.EVT_TASK_FINISHED, EventType.EVT_TASK_FAILED, EventType.EVT_JOB_MAPPED);

// Override default load balancing SPI.
cfg.setLoadBalancingSpi(spi);

// Start a node.
Ignite ignite = Ignition.start(cfg);

This API is not presently available for C#/.NET. You can use XML configuration.

This API is not presently available for C++. You can use XML configuration.

Random and Weighted Load Balancing

WeightedRandomLoadBalancingSpi picks a random node from the list of available nodes. You can also optionally assign weights to nodes, so that nodes with larger weights will end up getting proportionally more jobs routed to them. By default all nodes get a weight of 10.

<bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration">
    <property name="loadBalancingSpi">
        <bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.loadbalancing.weightedrandom.WeightedRandomLoadBalancingSpi">
            <property name="useWeights" value="true"/>
            <property name="nodeWeight" value="10"/>
        </bean>
    </property>
</bean>

WeightedRandomLoadBalancingSpi spi = new WeightedRandomLoadBalancingSpi();

// Configure SPI to use the weighted random load balancing algorithm.
spi.setUseWeights(true);

// Set weight for the local node.
spi.setNodeWeight(10);

IgniteConfiguration cfg = new IgniteConfiguration();

// Override default load balancing SPI.
cfg.setLoadBalancingSpi(spi);

// Start a node.
Ignite ignite = Ignition.start(cfg);

This API is not presently available for C#/.NET. You can use XML configuration.

This API is not presently available for C++. You can use XML configuration.

Job Stealing

Quite often grids are deployed across many computers some of which may be more powerful or under-utilized than others. Enabling JobStealingCollisionSpi helps avoid jobs being stuck at an over-utilized node, as they will be stolen by an under-utilized node.

JobStealingCollisionSpi supports job stealing from over-utilized nodes to under-utilized nodes. This SPI is especially useful if you have some jobs that complete quickly, while others are sitting in the waiting queue on over-utilized nodes. In such a case, the waiting jobs will be stolen from the slower node and moved to the fast/under-utilized node.

JobStealingCollisionSpi adopts a "late" load balancing technique, which allows reassigning a job from node A to node B after the job has been scheduled for execution on node A.

Here is an example of how to configure JobStealingCollisionSpi:

<bean class="org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration">
    <!-- Enabling the required Failover SPI. -->
    <property name="failoverSpi">
        <bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.failover.jobstealing.JobStealingFailoverSpi"/>
    </property>
    <!-- Enabling the JobStealingCollisionSpi for late load balancing. -->
    <property name="collisionSpi">
        <bean class="org.apache.ignite.spi.collision.jobstealing.JobStealingCollisionSpi">
            <property name="activeJobsThreshold" value="50"/>
            <property name="waitJobsThreshold" value="0"/>
            <property name="messageExpireTime" value="1000"/>
            <property name="maximumStealingAttempts" value="10"/>
            <property name="stealingEnabled" value="true"/>
            <property name="stealingAttributes">
                <map>
                    <entry key="node.segment" value="foobar"/>
                </map>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </property>
</bean>

JobStealingCollisionSpi spi = new JobStealingCollisionSpi();

// Configure number of waiting jobs
// in the queue for job stealing.
spi.setWaitJobsThreshold(10);

// Configure message expire time (in milliseconds).
spi.setMessageExpireTime(1000);

// Configure stealing attempts number.
spi.setMaximumStealingAttempts(10);

// Configure number of active jobs that are allowed to execute
// in parallel. This number should usually be equal to the number
// of threads in the pool (default is 100).
spi.setActiveJobsThreshold(50);

// Enable stealing.
spi.setStealingEnabled(true);

// Set stealing attribute to steal from/to nodes that have it.
spi.setStealingAttributes(Collections.singletonMap("node.segment", "foobar"));

// Enable `JobStealingFailoverSpi`
JobStealingFailoverSpi failoverSpi = new JobStealingFailoverSpi();

IgniteConfiguration cfg = new IgniteConfiguration();

// Override default Collision SPI.
cfg.setCollisionSpi(spi);

cfg.setFailoverSpi(failoverSpi);

This API is not presently available for C#/.NET. You can use XML configuration.

This API is not presently available for C++. You can use XML configuration.

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Last updated on Dec 04, 2024