Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4509#discussion_r152239228 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/consumer/RemoteInputChannel.java --- @@ -462,4 +554,42 @@ public String getMessage() { expectedSequenceNumber, actualSequenceNumber); } } + + private class AvailableBufferQueue { + + /** The current available floating buffers from the fixed buffer pool. */ + private final ArrayDeque<Buffer> floatingBuffers; + + /** The current available exclusive buffers from the global buffer pool. */ + private final ArrayDeque<Buffer> exclusiveBuffers; + + AvailableBufferQueue() { + this.exclusiveBuffers = new ArrayDeque<>(); + this.floatingBuffers = new ArrayDeque<>(); + } + + void addExclusiveBuffer(Buffer buffer) { + exclusiveBuffers.add(buffer); + } + + Buffer takeExclusiveBuffer() { + return exclusiveBuffers.poll(); + } + + void addFloatingBuffer(Buffer buffer) { + floatingBuffers.add(buffer); + } + + Buffer takeFloatingBuffer() { --- End diff -- should be `@Nullable`
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