Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1924#discussion_r106541357 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpoutRetryExponentialBackoff.java --- @@ -54,21 +55,28 @@ private static class RetryEntryTimeStampComparator implements Serializable, Comparator<RetrySchedule> { @Override public int compare(RetrySchedule entry1, RetrySchedule entry2) { - return Long.valueOf(entry1.nextRetryTimeNanos()).compareTo(entry2.nextRetryTimeNanos()); + int result = Long.valueOf(entry1.nextRetryTimeNanos()).compareTo(entry2.nextRetryTimeNanos()); + + if(result == 0) { + //TreeSet uses compareTo instead of equals() for the Set contract + //Ensure that we can save two retry schedules with the same timestamp --- End diff -- Isn't this impossible to happen? The KafkaSpout is single threaded. When it calls schedule(msgId) , the scheduled time will be associated with System.nanoTime().
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