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appchemist commented on KAFKA-15615:
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Is this patch no longer necessary?
If no longer necessary, I'll close the PR. If no, it's been a while and I'll
have to check the code again.
> Improve handling of fetching during metadata updates
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>
> Key: KAFKA-15615
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15615
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: clients, consumer
> Affects Versions: 3.8.0
> Reporter: Kirk True
> Assignee: appchemist
> Priority: Major
> Labels: consumer-threading-refactor, fetcher
>
> [During a review of the new
> fetcher|https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/14406#discussion_r1333393941],
> [~junrao] found what appears to be an opportunity for optimization.
> When a fetch response receives an error about partition leadership, fencing,
> etc. a metadata refresh is triggered. However, it takes time for that refresh
> to occur, and in the interim, it appears that the consumer will blindly
> attempt to fetch data for the partition again, in kind of a "definition of
> insanity" type of way. Ideally, the consumer would have a way to temporarily
> ignore those partitions, in a way somewhat like the "pausing" approach so
> that they are skipped until the metadata refresh response is fully processed.
> This affects both the existing KafkaConsumer and the new
> PrototypeAsyncConsumer.
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