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jonlee2 opened a new pull request #5408: KAFKA-7126: Reduce number of rebalance
period for large consumer group after a topic is created
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5408
This patch forces metadata update for consumers with pattern subscription at
the beginning of rebalance. This is to prevent such consumers from detecting
subscription changes (e.g., new topic creation) independently and triggering
multiple unnecessary rebalances. KAFKA-7126 contains detailed scenarios and
rationale.
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> Reduce number of rebalance period for large consumer groups after a topic is
> created
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>
> Key: KAFKA-7126
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7126
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Dong Lin
> Assignee: Jon Lee
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: 1.diff
>
>
> For a group of 200 MirrorMaker consumers with patten-based topic
> subscription, a single topic creation caused 50 rebalances for each of these
> consumer over 5 minutes period. This causes the MM to significantly lag
> behind during this 5 minutes period and the clusters may be considerably
> out-of-sync during this period.
> Ideally we would like to trigger only 1 rebalance in the MM group after a
> topic is created. And conceptually it should be doable.
>
> Here is the explanation of this repeated consumer rebalance based on the
> consumer rebalance logic in the latest Kafka code:
> 1) A topic of 10 partitions are created in the cluster and it matches the
> subscription pattern of the MM consumers.
> 2) The leader of the MM consumer group detects the new topic after metadata
> refresh. It triggers rebalance.
> 3) At time T0, the first rebalance finishes. 10 consumers are assigned 1
> partition of this topic. The other 190 consumers are not assigned any
> partition of this topic. At this moment, the newly created topic will appear
> in `ConsumerCoordinator.subscriptions.subscription` for those consumers who
> is assigned partition of this consumer or who has refreshed metadata before
> time T0.
> 4) In the common case, half of the consumers has refreshed metadata before
> the leader of the consumer group refreshed metadata. Thus around 100 + 10 =
> 110 consumers has the newly created topic in
> `ConsumerCoordinator.subscriptions.subscription`. The other 90 consumers do
> not have this topic in `ConsumerCoordinator.subscriptions.subscription`.
> 5) For those 90 consumers, if any consumer refreshes metadata, it will add
> this topic to `ConsumerCoordinator.subscriptions.subscription`, which causes
> `ConsumerCoordinator.rejoinNeededOrPending()` to return true and triggers
> another rebalance. If a few consumers refresh metadata almost at the same
> time, they will jointly trigger one rebalance. Otherwise, they each trigger a
> separate rebalance.
> 6) The default metadata.max.age.ms is 5 minutes. Thus in the worse case,
> which is probably also the average case if number of consumers in the group
> is large, the latest consumer will refresh its metadata 5 minutes after T0.
> And the rebalance will be repeated during this 5 minutes interval.
>
>
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