Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4509#discussion_r141896356 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/consumer/RemoteInputChannel.java --- @@ -412,23 +468,35 @@ public void onBuffer(Buffer buffer, int sequenceNumber) { } } } + + if (success && backlog > 0) { --- End diff -- Shouldn't we call this for `success && backlog >= 0` to try to always have `initialCredit` (extra) buffers available (if there are enough buffers)?
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