Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6103#discussion_r192558687 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/deployment/InputChannelDeploymentDescriptor.java --- @@ -103,9 +103,7 @@ public String toString() { // The producing task needs to be RUNNING or already FINISHED if (consumedPartition.isConsumable() && producerSlot != null && (producerState == ExecutionState.RUNNING || - producerState == ExecutionState.FINISHED || - producerState == ExecutionState.SCHEDULED || - producerState == ExecutionState.DEPLOYING)) { --- End diff -- Yes, I would say that we tackle this problem after we have removed the legacy code. For the moment, there is a work around to set the max backoff time higher for the data connections.
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