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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8178: --------------------------------------- Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5105#discussion_r156416892 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/buffer/BufferBuilder.java --- @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.buffer; + +import org.apache.flink.core.memory.MemorySegment; + +import javax.annotation.concurrent.NotThreadSafe; + +import java.nio.ByteBuffer; + +import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkNotNull; +import static org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkState; + +/** + * Not thread safe class for filling in the initial content of the {@link Buffer}. Once writing to the builder + * is complete, {@link Buffer} instance can be built and shared across multiple threads. + */ +@NotThreadSafe +public class BufferBuilder { + private final MemorySegment memorySegment; + + private final BufferRecycler recycler; + + private int position = 0; + + private boolean built = false; --- End diff -- Can't we use the `position` field and set it to an invalid valid, e.g. `-1`, instead? This is just to allow an internal check for correctness. > Introduce not threadsafe write only BufferBuilder > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8178 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8178 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Network > Reporter: Piotr Nowojski > Assignee: Piotr Nowojski > Fix For: 1.5.0 > > > While Buffer class is used in multithreaded context it requires > synchronisation. Now it is miss-leading/unclear and suggesting that > RecordSerializer should take into account synchronisation of the Buffer > that's holding. With NotThreadSafe BufferBuilder there would be clear > separation between single-threaded writing/creating a BufferBuilder and > multithreaded Buffer handling/retaining/recycling. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)