Thanks Ben. I think what I heard is that in broker socketServer it only has one thread(acceptor?) to handle new connections which may potentially become a bottleneck if many small requests come in. -Tao
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Ben Stopford <b...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi Tao > > This is unlikely to be a problem. The producer is threadsafe (see here < > http://kafka.apache.org/082/javadoc/index.html?org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/KafkaProducer.html>) > so you can happily share it between your pool of message producers. Kafka > also provides a range of facilities for improving parallelism in your pipe. > These include batching messages for bulk transfer, along with callbacks to > provide acknowledgement. Kafka obviously provides a great degree of > parallelism across brokers... > > Hope that helps. > > B > > > > > On 15 Aug 2015, at 17:19, Tao Feng <fengta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I was told that only single thread handle client producer request in > Kafka > > broker which may potentially be a performance problem with request > queue-up > > if we have many small requests. I am wondering which part of the code I > > should read to understand the above logic > > > > Thanks, > > -Tao > >
