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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-532: ------------------------------- 50. My feeling is that request level error code conveys the same meaning that every partition fails with the same error code and my preference is to keep all response format consistent. However, if you prefer, it's ok to check in the patch as it is and revisit it when we finalize the wire format. So, +1 from me on the patch. > Multiple controllers can co-exist during soft failures > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-532 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-532 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.8 > Reporter: Neha Narkhede > Assignee: Neha Narkhede > Priority: Blocker > Labels: bugs > Attachments: kafka-532-v1.patch, kafka-532-v2.patch, > kafka-532-v3.patch, kafka-532-v4.patch, kafka-532-v5.patch > > Original Estimate: 48h > Remaining Estimate: 48h > > If the current controller experiences an intermittent soft failure (GC pause) > in the middle of leader election or partition reassignment, a new controller > might get elected and start communicating new state change decisions to the > brokers. After recovering from the soft failure, the old controller might > continue sending some stale state change decisions to the brokers, resulting > in unexpected failures. We need to introduce a controller generation id that > increments with controller election. The brokers should reject any state > change requests by a controller with an older generation id. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira