ActiveJob

A job (aka action job or active job) is a top-level work item (computation) submitted to DAGScheduler to compute the result of an action (or for Adaptive Query Planning / Adaptive Scheduling).

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Figure 1. RDD actions submit jobs to DAGScheduler

Computing a job is equivalent to computing the partitions of the RDD the action has been executed upon. The number of partitions in a job depends on the type of a stage - ResultStage or ShuffleMapStage.

A job starts with a single target RDD, but can ultimately include other RDDs that are all part of the target RDD’s lineage graph.

The parent stages are the instances of ShuffleMapStage.

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Figure 2. Computing a job is computing the partitions of an RDD
Note
Note that not all partitions have always to be computed for ResultStages for actions like first() and lookup().

Internally, a job is represented by an instance of private[spark] class org.apache.spark.scheduler.ActiveJob.

Caution
  • Where are instances of ActiveJob used?

A job can be one of two logical types (that are only distinguished by an internal finalStage field of ActiveJob):

Jobs track how many partitions have already been computed (using finished array of Boolean elements).

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