Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4499#discussion_r138922984 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/consumer/RemoteInputChannel.java --- @@ -183,18 +214,40 @@ void notifySubpartitionConsumed() { } /** - * Releases all received buffers and closes the partition request client. + * Releases all received and available buffers, closes the partition request client. */ @Override void releaseAllResources() throws IOException { if (isReleased.compareAndSet(false, true)) { + + final List<MemorySegment> recyclingSegments = new ArrayList<>(); + synchronized (receivedBuffers) { Buffer buffer; while ((buffer = receivedBuffers.poll()) != null) { - buffer.recycle(); + if (buffer.getRecycler() == this) { + recyclingSegments.add(buffer.getMemorySegment()); --- End diff -- Although this is probably more performant than calling `recycle()`, the beauty of having `this` as the recycler for our exclusive buffers actually allows very simple and nice code only calling `recycle()` in all cases. Since we're not on the hot path here, I'd actually prefer that, or what do you think?
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