Hi Alyssa, On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM Alyssa Huang <ahu...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Is the intent to say that in addition to all the current conditions, > the HWM check is an additional condition that *must *be met in order for > the fetch request to be parked? Just confirming since I'm not sure if I > should interpret "may also park" too literally.
It is an additional condition that may be considered. The difficulty and my hesitation in being prescriptive in the implementation is that completing the FETCH request because of the HWM may impact the utilization and throughput of Kafka. In many cases there is a trade-off between lower latencies and higher throughput. My position is that the remote HWM can be used when handling FETCH requests but the exact handling and implementation may change. Thanks, -- -José
