Hi Divij, Thanks for taking a look at the KIP!
1. I'm not sure we should include the kernel as part of the support statement. Kafka does not interact with the kernel directly and instead relies on the JVM to make the right system calls. So I think it's best to keep that out. 2. That's a good point. The system tests that Ismael mentioned include benchmarks, so if we run them we would get some performance metrics. Thanks, Mickael On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 3:10 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > Thanks for the KIP. I would say there are 2 requirements to fully support > platforms that the KIP does not mention: > > 1. Running system tests on that platform nightly. > 2. Committers need a mechanism to be able to debug and fix issues affecting > the platforms. > > arm64 seems like the kind of platform where we can achieve both, but the > others are more challenging. > > Ismael > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:01 AM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently started a thread > > (https://lists.apache.org/thread/4ffpspc59cnzqbgjf3l50ykcvyp7vwtv) > > about whether we should consider aarch64 (ARM64) and ppc64le (PowerPC) > > as supported platforms because we've recently started using these > > platforms in the Kafka CI. > > > > Unfortunately nobody replied so I guess a better way to start a > > discussion is to make a proposal. I opened KIP-826 to propose clearly > > defining the platforms we support in our docs and also introducing a > > process for adding additional platforms in the future: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-826%3A+Define+platforms+supported > > > > Let me know if you have any feedback. > > > > Thanks, > > Mickael > >
