Hi Jose,

That'a s good point that I hadn't considered.  It's probably worth having a 
separate leader change message, as you mentioned.

Hi Unmesh,

Thanks, I'll take a look.

best,
Colin


On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, at 11:56, Jose Garcia Sancio wrote:
> Hi Unmesh,
> 
> Very cool prototype!
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> The KIP proposes a record called IsrChange which includes the
> partition, topic, isr, leader and leader epoch. During normal
> operation ISR changes do not result in leader changes. Similarly,
> leader changes do not necessarily involve ISR changes. The controller
> implementation that uses ZK modeled them together because
> 1. All of this information is stored in one znode.
> 2. ZK's optimistic lock requires that you specify the new value completely
> 3. The change to that znode was being performed by both the controller
> and the leader.
> 
> None of these reasons are true in KIP-500. Have we considered having
> two different records? For example
> 
> 1. IsrChange record which includes topic, partition, isr
> 2. LeaderChange record which includes topic, partition, leader and leader 
> epoch.
> 
> I suspect that making this change will also require changing the
> message AlterIsrRequest introduced in KIP-497: Add inter-broker API to
> alter ISR.
> 
> Thanks
> -Jose
>

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