Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4321#discussion_r128178914 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.9/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/internal/KafkaConsumerThread.java --- @@ -210,14 +214,28 @@ public void run() { } try { - newPartitions = unassignedPartitionsQueue.pollBatch(); + if (hasAssignedPartitions) { + newPartitions = unassignedPartitionsQueue.pollBatch(); + } + else { + // if no assigned partitions block until we get at least one + // instead of hot spinning this loop. We relay on a fact that --- End diff -- nit: typo? relay -> rely
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