Ismael Juma created KAFKA-5859: ---------------------------------- Summary: Avoid retaining AbstractRequest in RequestChannel.Request Key: KAFKA-5859 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5859 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Ismael Juma Priority: Minor
We currently store AbstractRequest in RequestChannel.Request.bodyAndSize. RequestChannel.Request is, in turn, stored in RequestChannel.Response. We keep the latter until the response is sent to the client. However, after KafkaApis.handle, we no longer need AbstractRequest apart from its string representation for logging. We could potentially replace AbstractRequest with a String representation (if the relevant logging is enabled). The String representation is generally small while some AbstractRequest subclasses can be pretty large. The largest one is ProduceRequest and we clear the underlying ByteBuffer explicitly in KafkaApis.handleProduceRequest. We could potentially remove that special case if AbstractRequest subclasses were not retained. This was originally suggested by [~hachikuji] in the following PR https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3801#discussion_r137592277 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)