KAFKA-16810: Add flag to read from specific partitions while checking consumer performance

[BOOTMGR]

kafka-consumer-perf-test is a great tool to quickly check raw consumer performance. Currently, It subscribes to all the partitions and gives overall cluster performance, however If we want to test performance of single broker/partition, existing tool does not support.

This PR introduces two optional flags --partitions and --offsets which gives flexibility to benchmark only specific partitions optionally from specified offsets.

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[lianetm]

Hey @BOOTMGR, I would expect we need a KIP for this. It brings changes in the command line tool arguments, which is considered a public interface (check KIP page here)

[BOOTMGR]

Hey @BOOTMGR, I would expect we need a KIP for this. It brings changes in the command line tool arguments, which is considered a public interface (check KIP page here)

Thanks for looking into this, I will file KIP.

[BOOTMGR]

Hi @lianetm ,
I know the team might be occupied with other important tasks, but I firmly believe this addition would be beneficial. I have filed a KIP [here] and started a discussion thread. Please take a look when you have the time.