GitHub user onurkaraman opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3765
KAFKA-5642 [WIP]: Use async ZookeeperClient in Controller Synchronous zookeeper writes means that we wait an entire round trip before doing the next write. These synchronous writes are happening at a per-partition granularity in several places, so partition-heavy clusters suffer from the controller doing many sequential round trips to zookeeper: - PartitionStateMachine.electLeaderForPartition updates leaderAndIsr in zookeeper on transition to OnlinePartition. This gets triggered per-partition sequentially with synchronous writes during controlled shutdown of the shutting down broker's replicas for which it is the leader. - ReplicaStateMachine updates leaderAndIsr in zookeeper on transition to OfflineReplica when calling KafkaController.removeReplicaFromIsr. This gets triggered per-partition sequentially with synchronous writes for failed or controlled shutdown brokers. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/onurkaraman/kafka KAFKA-5642 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3765.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 #3765 ---- commit 4b3e4e8b1d403bf817aeaa9196fb69a15b1a13a0 Author: Onur Karaman <okara...@linkedin.com> Date: 2017-07-27T18:29:35Z KAFKA-5642: Use async ZookeeperClient in Controller Synchronous zookeeper writes means that we wait an entire round trip before doing the next write. These synchronous writes are happening at a per-partition granularity in several places, so partition-heavy clusters suffer from the controller doing many sequential round trips to zookeeper: - PartitionStateMachine.electLeaderForPartition updates leaderAndIsr in zookeeper on transition to OnlinePartition. This gets triggered per-partition sequentially with synchronous writes during controlled shutdown of the shutting down broker's replicas for which it is the leader. - ReplicaStateMachine updates leaderAndIsr in zookeeper on transition to OfflineReplica when calling KafkaController.removeReplicaFromIsr. This gets triggered per-partition sequentially with synchronous writes for failed or controlled shutdown brokers. ---- --- 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. ---