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Re: [Condor-users] Does negotiator sorting apply only to ties or to all jobs?



Ian Chesal wrote:
They way it is written, it makes it sound like the entire list is re-sorted if NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK doesn't yield a unique and that it's re-sorted 2 times, maybe 3 times if preemption is to occur, before another top match is looked for. That doesn't seem like it can be the case. It *must* be looking for a new top match between sorts otherwise the only sort setting that matters after NEGOTIATOR_PRE_JOB_RANK would be the last one evaluated (NEGOTIATOR_POST_JOB_RANK or PREEMPTION_RANK).

Don't think of it as the list be re-sorted over and over. The list of machine ads is sorted just once lexicographically, and then the top machine ads is picked. Just like you may sort a list of names once w/ a primary key of last name and a secondary key of first name, the matchmaker sorts the list of machine ads once with the following 'keys' in order from most significant to least significant (for each, a larger number means 'better'):

	1. negotiator pre job rank
	2. job rank of offer
	3. negotiator post job rank
	4. preemption state (2=no preempt, 1=rank-preempt, 0=prio-preempt)
	5. preemption rank (if preempting)

Hope this helps.

regards,
Todd