Github user roshannaik commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2502#discussion_r168026607
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storm-client/src/jvm/org/apache/storm/messaging/netty/BackPressureStatus.java
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+package org.apache.storm.messaging.netty;
+
+import org.apache.storm.serialization.KryoValuesDeserializer;
+import org.apache.storm.serialization.KryoValuesSerializer;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
+import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+
+// Instances of this type are sent from NettyWorker to upstream
WorkerTransfer to indicate BackPressure situation
+public class BackPressureStatus {
+ public static final short IDENTIFIER = (short)-600;
+ private static final int SIZE_OF_ID = 2; // size if IDENTIFIER
+ private static final int SIZE_OF_INT = 4;
+
+ private static AtomicLong bpCount = new AtomicLong(0);
+
+ public String workerId;
+ public final long id; // monotonically
increasing id
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Its only for debugging purposes.. so that we can co-relate sent & recvd
msgs. I have used it to measure latency involved in transmission of
BackPressureStatus msgs.
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