AndrewJSchofield commented on code in PR #19980: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/19980#discussion_r2318715441
########## clients/clients-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/PlaintextConsumerTest.java: ########## @@ -1588,6 +1590,75 @@ private void sendCompressedMessages(int numRecords, TopicPartition tp) { } } + @ClusterTest + public void testClassicConsumerStallBetweenPoll() throws Exception { + testStallBetweenPoll(GroupProtocol.CLASSIC); + } + + @ClusterTest + public void testAsyncConsumerStallBetweenPoll() throws Exception { + testStallBetweenPoll(GroupProtocol.CONSUMER); + } + + /** + * This test is to prove that the intermittent stalling that has been experienced when using the asynchronous + * consumer, as filed under KAFKA-19259, have been fixed. + * + * <p/> + * + * The basic idea is to have one thread that produces a record every 500 ms. and the main thread that consumes + * records without pausing between polls for much more than the produce delay. In the test case filed in + * KAFKA-19259, the consumer sometimes pauses for up to 5-10 seconds despite records being produced every second. + */ + private void testStallBetweenPoll(GroupProtocol groupProtocol) throws Exception { + var testTopic = "stall-test-topic"; + var numPartitions = 6; + cluster.createTopic(testTopic, numPartitions, (short) BROKER_COUNT); + + // The producer must produce slowly to tickle the scenario. + var produceDelay = 500; + + var executor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1); + + try (var producer = cluster.producer()) { + // Start a thread running that produces records at a relative trickle. + executor.scheduleWithFixedDelay( + () -> producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>(testTopic, TestUtils.randomBytes(64))), + 0, + produceDelay, + TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS + ); + + Map<String, Object> consumerConfig = Map.of(GROUP_PROTOCOL_CONFIG, groupProtocol.name().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)); + + // Assign a tolerance for how much time is allowed to pass between Consumer.poll() calls given that there + // should be *at least* one record to read every second. + var pollDelayTolerance = 2000; + + try (Consumer<byte[], byte[]> consumer = cluster.consumer(consumerConfig)) { + consumer.subscribe(List.of(testTopic)); + + // This is here to allow the consumer time to settle the group membership/assignment. + awaitNonEmptyRecords(consumer, new TopicPartition(testTopic, 0)); + + // Keep track of the last time the poll is invoked to ensure the deltas between invocations don't + // exceed the delay threshold defined above. + var beforePoll = System.currentTimeMillis(); + consumer.poll(Duration.ofSeconds(5)); + consumer.poll(Duration.ofSeconds(5)); + var afterPoll = System.currentTimeMillis(); + var pollDelay = afterPoll - beforePoll; + + if (pollDelay > pollDelayTolerance) + fail("Detected a stall of " + pollDelay + " ms between Consumer.poll() invocations despite a Producer producing records every " + produceDelay + " ms"); Review Comment: I don't see why adding `unsubscribe` would help. Today, I ran 150 iterations without errors before I got bored 🎉 -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: jira-unsubscr...@kafka.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org