[KAFKA-264] Change the consumer side load balancing and distributed co-ordination to use a consumer co-ordinator

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.7, 0.8.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Neha Narkhede
• Reporter: Neha Narkhede
• Created: 06/Feb/12 21:53
• Updated: 07/Oct/16 16:03
• Resolved: 04/Apr/15 21:33

Description

A high level design for the zookeeper consumer is here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Detailed+Consumer+Coordinator+Design

Issue Links

• blocks: KAFKA-364 Consumer re-design
• incorporates: KAFKA-167 Move partition assignment to the broker

Sub-Tasks

• Add a queue of zookeeper notifications in the zookeeper consumer to reduce the number of rebalancing attempts: Resolved