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Boyang Chen reassigned KAFKA-7728:
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    Assignee: Mayuresh Gharat

> Add JoinReason to the join group request for better rebalance handling
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>                 Key: KAFKA-7728
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7728
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Boyang Chen
>            Assignee: Mayuresh Gharat
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: consumer, mirror-maker, needs-kip
>
> Recently [~mgharat] and I discussed about the current rebalance logic on 
> leader join group request handling. So far we blindly trigger rebalance when 
> the leader rejoins. The caveat is that KIP-345 is not covering this effort 
> and if a consumer group is not using sticky assignment but using other 
> strategy like round robin, the redundant rebalance could still shuffle the 
> topic partitions around consumers. (for example mirror maker application)
> I checked on broker side and here is what we currently do:
>  
> {code:java}
> if (group.isLeader(memberId) || !member.matches(protocols))  
> // force a rebalance if a member has changed metadata or if the leader sends 
> JoinGroup. 
> // The latter allows the leader to trigger rebalances for changes affecting 
> assignment 
> // which do not affect the member metadata (such as topic metadata changes 
> for the consumer) {code}
> Based on the broker logic, we only need to trigger rebalance for leader 
> rejoin when the topic metadata change has happened. I also looked up the 
> ConsumerCoordinator code on client side, and found out the metadata 
> monitoring logic here:
> {code:java}
> public boolean rejoinNeededOrPending() {
> ...
> // we need to rejoin if we performed the assignment and metadata has changed
> if (assignmentSnapshot != null && 
> !assignmentSnapshot.equals(metadataSnapshot))
>   return true;
> }{code}
>  I guess instead of just returning true, we could introduce a new enum field 
> called JoinReason which could indicate the purpose of the rejoin. Thus we 
> don't need to do a full rebalance when the leader is just in rolling bounce.
> We could utilize this information I guess. Just add another enum field into 
> the join group request called JoinReason so that we know whether leader is 
> rejoining due to topic metadata change. If yes, we trigger rebalance 
> obviously; if no, we shouldn't trigger rebalance.
>  



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