Paused workers shouldn't steal tasks (dask#5665)

distributed/stealing.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 from dask.utils import parse_timedelta
 
 from .comm.addressing import get_address_host
-from .core import CommClosedError
+from .core import CommClosedError, Status
 from .diagnostics.plugin import SchedulerPlugin
 from .utils import log_errors, recursive_to_dict
 
@@ -393,22 +393,23 @@ def maybe_move_task(level, ts, sat, idl, duration, cost_multiplier):
 
         with log_errors():
             i = 0
-            idle = s.idle.values()
-            saturated = s.saturated
+            # Paused and closing workers must never become thieves
+            idle = [ws for ws in s.idle.values() if ws.status == Status.running]
             if not idle or len(idle) == len(s.workers):
                 return
 
             log = []
             start = time()
 
-            if not s.saturated:
+            saturated = s.saturated
+            if not saturated:
                 saturated = topk(10, s.workers.values(), key=combined_occupancy)
                 saturated = [
                     ws
                     for ws in saturated
                     if combined_occupancy(ws) > 0.2 and len(ws.processing) > ws.nthreads
                 ]
-            elif len(s.saturated) < 20:
+            elif len(saturated) < 20:
                 saturated = sorted(saturated, key=combined_occupancy, reverse=True)
             if len(idle) < 20:
                 idle = sorted(idle, key=combined_occupancy)

distributed/tests/test_scheduler.py

@@ -3239,8 +3239,11 @@ async def test_avoid_paused_workers(c, s, w1, w2, w3):
     while s.workers[w2.address].status != Status.paused:
         await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
     futures = c.map(slowinc, range(8), delay=0.1)
-    while (len(w1.tasks), len(w2.tasks), len(w3.tasks)) != (4, 0, 4):
-        await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+    await wait(futures)
+    assert w1.data
+    assert not w2.data
+    assert w3.data
+    assert len(w1.data) + len(w3.data) == 8
 
 
 @gen_cluster(client=True, nthreads=[("", 1)])

distributed/tests/test_steal.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from distributed import Lock, Nanny, Worker, wait, worker_client
 from distributed.compatibility import LINUX, WINDOWS
 from distributed.config import config
+from distributed.core import Status
 from distributed.metrics import time
 from distributed.scheduler import key_split
 from distributed.system import MEMORY_LIMIT
@@ -816,28 +817,47 @@ async def test_steal_twice(c, s, a, b):
 
     while len(s.tasks) < 100:  # tasks are all allocated
         await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+    # Wait for b to start stealing tasks
+    while len(b.tasks) < 30:
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
 
     # Army of new workers arrives to help
-    workers = await asyncio.gather(*(Worker(s.address, loop=s.loop) for _ in range(20)))
+    workers = await asyncio.gather(*(Worker(s.address) for _ in range(20)))
 
     await wait(futures)
 
-    has_what = dict(s.has_what)  # take snapshot
-    empty_workers = [w for w, keys in has_what.items() if not len(keys)]
-    if len(empty_workers) > 2:
-        pytest.fail(
-            "Too many workers without keys (%d out of %d)"
-            % (len(empty_workers), len(has_what))
-        )
-    assert max(map(len, has_what.values())) < 30
+    # Note: this includes a and b
+    empty_workers = [w for w, keys in s.has_what.items() if not keys]
+    assert (
+        len(empty_workers) < 3
+    ), f"Too many workers without keys ({len(empty_workers)} out of {len(s.workers)})"
+    # This also tests that some tasks were stolen from b
+    # (see `while len(b.tasks) < 30` above)
+    assert max(map(len, s.has_what.values())) < 30
 
     assert a.in_flight_tasks == 0
     assert b.in_flight_tasks == 0
 
-    await c._close()
     await asyncio.gather(*(w.close() for w in workers))
 
 
+@gen_cluster(client=True, nthreads=[("", 1)] * 3)
+async def test_paused_workers_must_not_steal(c, s, w1, w2, w3):
+    w2.memory_pause_fraction = 1e-15
+    while s.workers[w2.address].status != Status.paused:
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+
+    x = c.submit(inc, 1, workers=w1.address)
+    await wait(x)
+
+    futures = [c.submit(slowadd, x, i, delay=0.1) for i in range(10)]
+    await wait(futures)
+
+    assert w1.data
+    assert not w2.data
+    assert w3.data
+
+
 @gen_cluster(client=True)
 async def test_dont_steal_already_released(c, s, a, b):
     future = c.submit(slowinc, 1, delay=0.05, workers=a.address)