Status

Current state:  Under DiscussionDiscussion thread: here Accepted

Discussion thread: [DISCUSS] KIP-281: ConsumerPerformance: Increase Polling Loop Timeout and Make It Reachable by the End User

Vote thread: [VOTE] KIP-281: ConsumerPerformance: Increase Polling Loop Timeout and Make It Reachable by the End User

Vote results: 

• Binding +4: Jason Gustafson, Ismael Juma, Rajini Sivaram and Guozhang Wang
• Non-binding +4: Ted Yu, Moshe Blumberg, Alex Dunayevsky, and Dhruvil Shah
• No -1 votes.

JIRA: 

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Providing the command line tool kafka-consumer-perf-test.sh with an optional --polling-loop-timeout parameter: 

Proposed Changes

• Increasing polling loop timeout in ConsumerPerformance implementation up to 60 10 000 ms 
• Making polling loop timeout reachable and modifiable by the end user from the command line kafka-consumer-perf-test tool
• If Print a warning message if the polling loop timeout is exceeded, print a warning message

Proposed changes in code available in this PR: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4818

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• Positive impact on existing users since the utility generates more accurate results 
• The proposed parameter is optional, will not break anything

Rejected Alternatives

..None.