[ARROW-7538] Clarify actual and desired size in AllocationManager

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: Java
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23800
• Assignee: Rong Rong
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 10/Jan/20 05:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 10:54
• Resolved: 28/Jan/20 16:33

Description

As a follow up to the review of ARROW-7329, we should clarify the different sizes (desired vs actual size) in AllocationManager: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5973#discussion_r354729754

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-7329 [Java] AllocationManager: Allow managing different types of memory other than those are allocated using Netty
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6204