Github user uce commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2345
+1 to merge this.
On a related note: we might want to add information to the checkpoint
statistics part of the web frontend saying whether the checkpoints were async
or sync. Users might get confused when they see that the checkpoint times
increased.
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