GitHub user ijuma opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3233
MINOR: Remove volatile write in RecordHeaders The JMH benchmark included shows that the redundant volatile write causes the constructor of `ProducerRecord` to take more than 50% longer: ProduceRecordBenchmark.createProducerRecord avgt 15 24.136 ± 1.458 ns/op (before) ProduceRecordBenchmark.createProducerRecord avgt 15 14.904 ± 0.231 ns/op (after) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ijuma/kafka remove-volatile-write-in-records-header-constructor Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3233.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 #3233 ---- commit 333b5159b4191a8d958be1664212d54b9b247bd9 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2017-06-04T14:00:35Z MINOR: Remove volatile write in RecordHeaders The JMH benchmark included shows that the redundant volatile write causes the constructor of `ProducerRecord` to take more than 50% longer: ProduceRecordBenchmark.createProducerRecord avgt 15 24.136 ± 1.458 ns/op (before) ProduceRecordBenchmark.createProducerRecord avgt 15 14.904 ± 0.231 ns/op (after) ---- --- 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. ---