Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2693#discussion_r85079795 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/PipelinedSubpartition.java --- @@ -220,4 +220,10 @@ boolean registerListener(NotificationListener listener) { throw new IllegalStateException("Already registered listener."); } } + + public int getNumberOfQueuedBuffers() { + synchronized (buffers) { --- End diff -- Can we avoid synchronization here? The metrics should never influence (block) the other code. I would rather have the metrics be one off once in a while and avoid the lock here.
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