[KAFKA-1994] Evaluate performance effect of chroot check on Topic creation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Assignee: Ashish Singh
• Reporter: Ashish Singh
• Reviewer: Jun Rao
• Created: 02/Mar/15 05:14
• Updated: 18/Apr/15 16:27
• Resolved: 18/Apr/15 16:27

Description

KAFKA-1664 adds check for chroot while creating a node in ZK. ZkPath checks if namespace exists before trying to create a path in ZK. This raises a concern that checking namespace for each path creation might be unnecessary and can potentially make creations expensive.