zhijiangW commented on a change in pull request #9993: [FLINK-14498][runtime]Introduce NetworkBufferPool#isAvailable() for interacting with LocalBufferPool. URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/9993#discussion_r339029685
########## File path: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/buffer/LocalBufferPool.java ########## @@ -231,18 +231,43 @@ private BufferBuilder toBufferBuilder(MemorySegment memorySegment) { @Nullable private MemorySegment requestMemorySegment(boolean isBlocking) throws InterruptedException, IOException { + // a flag to indicate whether the blocking request thread is + // waiting and needs to be notified + final AtomicBoolean waitingFlag = new AtomicBoolean(false); MemorySegment segment = null; synchronized (availableMemorySegments) { returnExcessMemorySegments(); // fill availableMemorySegments with at least one element, wait if required while (availableMemorySegments.isEmpty()) { segment = requestMemorySegmentFromGlobal(); - if (segment != null || !isBlocking) { + if (segment != null || !isBlocking || !availableMemorySegments.isEmpty()) { Review comment: `!availableMemorySegments.isEmpty()` is not very necessary? Because it is duplicated with the condition in above `while (availableMemorySegments.isEmpty())` ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services