[SPARK-17649][CORE] Log how many Spark events got dropped in LiveListenerBus

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Log how many Spark events got dropped in LiveListenerBus so that the user can get insights on how to set a correct event queue size.

## How was this patch tested?

Jenkins

Author: Shixiong Zhu <[email protected]>

Closes apache#15220 from zsxwing/SPARK-17649.

Author: zsxwing

core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/LiveListenerBus.scala

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 package org.apache.spark.scheduler
 
 import java.util.concurrent._
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.{AtomicBoolean, AtomicLong}
 
 import scala.util.DynamicVariable
 
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ private[spark] class LiveListenerBus(val sparkContext: SparkContext) extends Spa
   // Indicate if `stop()` is called
   private val stopped = new AtomicBoolean(false)
 
+  /** A counter for dropped events. It will be reset every time we log it. */
+  private val droppedEventsCounter = new AtomicLong(0L)
+
+  /** When `droppedEventsCounter` was logged last time in milliseconds. */
+  @volatile private var lastReportTimestamp = 0L
+
   // Indicate if we are processing some event
   // Guarded by `self`
   private var processingEvent = false
@@ -123,6 +129,24 @@ private[spark] class LiveListenerBus(val sparkContext: SparkContext) extends Spa
       eventLock.release()
     } else {
       onDropEvent(event)
+      droppedEventsCounter.incrementAndGet()
+    }
+
+    val droppedEvents = droppedEventsCounter.get
+    if (droppedEvents > 0) {
+      // Don't log too frequently
+      if (System.currentTimeMillis() - lastReportTimestamp >= 60 * 1000) {
+        // There may be multiple threads trying to decrease droppedEventsCounter.
+        // Use "compareAndSet" to make sure only one thread can win.
+        // And if another thread is increasing droppedEventsCounter, "compareAndSet" will fail and
+        // then that thread will update it.
+        if (droppedEventsCounter.compareAndSet(droppedEvents, 0)) {
+          val prevLastReportTimestamp = lastReportTimestamp
+          lastReportTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis()
+          logWarning(s"Dropped $droppedEvents SparkListenerEvents since " +
+            new java.util.Date(prevLastReportTimestamp))
+        }
+      }
     }
   }