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Bowen Li commented on FLINK-39012:
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addon: the goal is to make enumeration strategy configurable for the dynamic
source and retain existing per cluster enumeration strategy
> Support global enumerator/dispatcher for dynamic Kafka source
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> Key: FLINK-39012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39012
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Connectors / Kafka
> Affects Versions: kafka-4.0.1
> Reporter: Xin Gao
> Assignee: Xin Gao
> Priority: Critical
>
> The current dynamic Kafka source is great for runtime partition and cluster
> change for stream ingestions. But the split scheduling is still falling back
> to the per cluster enumerator and *cannot* handle:
> * Global load balancing of split - slot assignment across multiple clusters.
> * Further parallelism increase across cluster.
> Below is a detailed walk through:
> # For the same topic, it could exist on multiple Kafka clusters, and each
> may have {*}different number of partitions{*}.
> # Even with dynamic Kafka source, each cluster would still have their *own
> cluster enumerator.*
> # Each cluster enumerator would {*}assign the split independently{*},
> resulting in a round robin assignment per cluster.
> # Therefore, it would still end up with some slot taking more partitions but
> rest taking less.
> For example, one topic exists in 11 different clusters, 3 with 64 partitions,
> 8 with 8 partitions.
> * The max number of slots we could utilize is 64. We cannot have 64 * 3 + 8
> * 8 slots to achieve full parallelism. Current split assignment is only
> determined by hash of topic name. {*}So same topic from different clusters
> would end up with same slot{*}.
> * Even with 64 slots, the l{*}oad may not be balanced{*}. Cluster with 64
> partitions could assign 1 split per slot, but clusters with 8 partitions may
> not achieve global balance. (e.g. 8 * 8 = 64 partitions may not assign each
> slot 1 split).
> As a result, a global enumerator or split dispatcher could be useful to
> achieve global parallelism and load balancing. Nowadays, dynamic Kafka source
> could do it well for multiple topics in one cluster. We'd need to extend it
> to multiple clusters as well.
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