GitHub user vahidhashemian opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1020
KAFKA-2273: Sticky partition assignment strategy
This PR implements a new partition assignment strategy called "sticky", and
it's purpose is to balance partitions across consumers in a way that minimizes
moving partitions around, or, in other words, preserves existing partition
assignments as much as possible.
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$ git pull https://github.com/vahidhashemian/kafka KAFKA-2273
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1020.patch
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This closes #1020
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commit 1f774ea784e57377752f55dd4fe91212e8bcbda1
Author: Vahid Hashemian <vahidhashem...@us.ibm.com>
Date: 2016-02-18T13:44:17Z
KAFKA-2273: Sticky partition assignment strategy
This PR implements a new partition assignment strategy called "sticky", and
it's purpose is to balance partitions across consumers in a way that minimizes
moving partitions around, or in other words, preserving partition assignments
as much as possible.
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