diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/base/role_maker.py b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/base/role_maker.py
index 528f7b3269eb90435d88cffadfa185cc664e430a..506a38059c33b94f8dc421c1e2e3b800de35fac7 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/base/role_maker.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/base/role_maker.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class MPIRoleMaker(RoleMakerBase):
         """
         finalize the current MPI instance.
         """
-        self.comm_.finalize()
+        pass
 
 
 class MPISymetricRoleMaker(MPIRoleMaker):
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/parameter_server/__init__.py b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/parameter_server/__init__.py
index 9b1ec412c731a4b59d0da8847e91e30d8e1d864a..1c49ea1f55e7ea877a56479254efd91753d4ee8a 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/parameter_server/__init__.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/parameter_server/__init__.py
@@ -241,6 +241,35 @@ class Fleet(object):
         """
         self._fleet_ptr.save_model(save_path)
 
+    def split_filelist(self, filelist):
+        """
+        split filelist before distributed training,
+        for example, filelist is [a, b, c ,d, e]  and trainer_num = 2,
+        then trainer 0 gets [a, b, c] and trainer 1 gets [d, e]
+
+        Args:
+            filelist(list): list of filename, can be local or hdfs/afs.
+
+        Returns: list of filename which belongs to this trainer.
+        """
+        file_num = len(filelist)
+        trainer_id = self.get_worker_index()
+        trainer_num = self.get_worker_num()
+        if trainer_num > file_num:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "trainer_num should be <= file_num : "
+                "%s > %s" % (trainer_num, file_num)
+            )
+        # get interval of filelist, it's [ )
+        start = 0
+        end = 0
+        for i in range(0, trainer_id + 1):
+            length = file_num / trainer_num + (i < (file_num % trainer_num))
+            start = end
+            end += length
+        myfilelist = filelist[start : end]
+        return myfilelist
+
     def _set_opt_info(self, opt_info):
         """
         this function saves the result from DistributedOptimizer.minimize()
@@ -337,3 +366,4 @@ save_pserver_model = fleet_instance.save_pserver_model
 worker_num = fleet_instance.get_worker_num
 server_num = fleet_instance.get_server_num
 worker_index = fleet_instance.get_worker_index
+split_filelist = fleet_instance.split_filelist