Yes, the Kafka team has told me that this is how it works (at least for 0.72).
Philip On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Yu, Libo <libo...@citi.com> wrote: > Hi team, > > Right now, from a stream, an iterator can be obtained which has a blocking > hasNext(). > So what is the implementation behind the iterator? I assume there must be > queue and > the iterator monitors the queue. And a separate thread fetches data and feeds > to the > queue when it is almost empty. If that is the case, no more optimization > needs to be > done by our users. Please confirm if there is a separate thread that fetches > data and > feeds to the queue. Thanks. > > > Regards, > > Libo >
