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Transport Batching

Kommander transport code uses BatchRequests for grouped transport work.

What Gets Batched​

Batched transport traffic includes:

  • append-log traffic
  • append completions
  • vote and handshake traffic
  • control-plane messages such as step-down notices and leadership-transfer requests.

This reduces per-message overhead and gives transports one place to send mixed Raft traffic efficiently.

Transport Adapters​

The communication contract includes:

Task<BatchRequestsResponse> BatchRequests(
    RaftManager manager,
    RaftNode node,
    BatchRequestsRequest request
);

Current adapters use that contract in different ways:

  • GrpcCommunication: streaming batch requests.
  • RestCommunication: HTTP JSON batch endpoint.
  • InMemoryCommunication: in-process batch dispatch for tests and simulations.

Operational Meaning​

You do not usually call BatchRequests directly from application code. It is part of the transport layer. Internal Raft traffic shares this batching path, which reduces transport churn under load.