rkhachatryan commented on PR #27440:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/27440#issuecomment-3777834866

   Yes @1996fanrui, you're right.
   
   The purpose of this change is to prevent new input records from delaying the 
switch of the downstream tasks to RUNNING.
   This doesn't help in every case; an example where it is useful is two JOINed 
sources, where one of the channels has a lot of checkpointed buffers; and the 
other one is fast in producing new data (from source).
   
   In a sense, this is a lightweight alternative to FLIP-547.
   To my understanding the timeline of implementing and stabilizing FLIP-547 is 
relatively long (PCMIIW), so this feature still makes sense.


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