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Jiangjie Qin commented on KAFKA-3236:
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[~tgraves] We had extensive discussion on the configurations in KIP-19.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-19+-+Add+a+request+timeout+to+NetworkClient
We will actually deprecate the {{block.on.buffer.full}} configuration in the
next release. The rationale behind this is that any synchronized call for
producer is guaranteed to be returned in {{max.block.ms}}. That includes buffer
full, metadata refresh and so on.
In your use case, {{block.on.buffer.full = false}} and {{max.block.ms > 0}} is
not a pure non-blocking mode because {{producer.send()}} can still block up to
{{max.bock.ms}}, right?
> Honor Producer Configuration "block.on.buffer.full"
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-3236
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3236
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: producer
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0
> Reporter: Thomas Graves
> Assignee: Thomas Graves
>
> In Kafka-0.9, "max.block.ms" is used to control how long the following
> methods will block.
> KafkaProducer.send() when
> * Buffer is full
> * Metadata is unavailable
> KafkaProducer.partitionsFor() when
> * Metadata is unavailable
> However when "block.on.buffer.full" is set to false, "max.block.ms" is in
> effect whenever a buffer is requested/allocated from the Producer BufferPool.
> Instead it should throw a BufferExhaustedException without waiting for
> "max.block.ms"
> This is particulary useful if a producer application does not wish to block
> at all on KafkaProducer.send() . We avoid waiting on KafkaProducer.send()
> when metadata is unavailable by invoking send() only if the producer instance
> has fetched the metadata for the topic in a different thread using the same
> producer instance. However "max.block.ms" is still required to specify a
> timeout for bootstrapping the metadata fetch.
> We should resolve this limitation by decoupling "max.block.ms" and
> "block.on.buffer.full".
> * "max.block.ms" will be used exclusively for fetching metadata when
> "block.on.buffer.full" = false (in pure non-blocking mode )
> * "max.block.ms" will be applicable to both fetching metadata as well as
> buffer allocation when "block.on.buffer.full = true
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