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Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: If the idea is approved then I will create the Jirahere [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]

Motivation

The main motivation is to have a clear metric (in spite of the OS) to see when the produce requests become "async" .In a normal situation the produce requests will be written to disk via teh lib->syscall->etc.., as we know this will end up in a memory page (dirty page from now on)

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