Class MappingWorksheet

java.lang.Object
hudson.model.queue.MappingWorksheet

public class MappingWorksheet extends Object
Defines a mapping problem for answering "where do we execute this task?"

The heart of the placement problem is a mapping problem. We are given a Queue.Task, (which in the general case consists of a set of SubTasks), and we are also given a number of idle Executors, and our goal is to find a mapping from the former to the latter, which determines where each SubTask gets executed.

This mapping is done under the following constraints:

  • "Same node" constraint. Some of the subtasks need to be co-located on the same node. See SubTask.getSameNodeConstraint()
  • Label constraint. SubTasks can specify that it can be only run on nodes that has the label.

We first fold the former constraint into the problem definition. That is, we now consider a set of SubTasks that need to be co-located as a single MappingWorksheet.WorkChunk. Similarly, we consider a set of all Executors from the same node as MappingWorksheet.ExecutorChunk. Now, the problem becomes the weighted matching problem from MappingWorksheet.WorkChunk to MappingWorksheet.ExecutorChunk.

An instance of MappingWorksheet captures a problem definition, plus which MappingWorksheet.ExecutorChunk and MappingWorksheet.WorkChunk are compatible. The purpose of this class (and MappingWorksheet.ExecutorChunk and MappingWorksheet.WorkChunk) are to expose a lot of convenience methods to assist various algorithms that produce the solution of this mapping problem, which is represented as MappingWorksheet.Mapping.

Author:
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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