Github user pnowojski commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6071#discussion_r194713008 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/handler/router/RoutedRequest.java --- @@ -97,11 +98,17 @@ public ReferenceCounted retain(int arg0) { @Override public ReferenceCounted touch() { + if (requestAsReferenceCounted.isPresent()) { + ReferenceCountUtil.touch(requestAsReferenceCounted.get()); + } return this; } @Override public ReferenceCounted touch(Object o) { + if (requestAsReferenceCounted.isPresent()) { + ReferenceCountUtil.touch(requestAsReferenceCounted.get()); --- End diff -- I think we could do that. I'm not entirely sure how this whole `touch` is suppose to work, but passing down the hint shouldn't harm anything and be more correct.
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