kafka streaming topic partitions vs executors

[patcharee]

Hi,

I am working a streaming application integrated with Kafka by the API 
createDirectStream. The application streams a topic which contains 10 
partitions (on Kafka). It executes with 10 workers (--num-executors 10) 
When it reads data from Kafka/ZooKeeper, Spark creates 10 tasks (as same 
as the topic's partitions). However some executors are given more than 1 
tasks and work on these tasks sequentially.

Why Spark does not distribute these 10 tasks to 10 executors? How to do 
that?

Thanks,
Patcharee