GitHub user ewencp opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/443
KAFKA-2713: Run task start and stop methods in worker threads so they execute in parallel and cannot block the herder thread. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ewencp/kafka kafka-2713-task-start-stop-threaded Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/443.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #443 ---- commit b0aa81f0d32019a4d588daf1e12bd47dd6c95930 Author: Ewen Cheslack-Postava <m...@ewencp.org> Date: 2015-11-06T16:45:21Z KAFKA-2713: Run task start and stop methods in worker threads so they execute in parallel and cannot block the herder thread. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---