Backport of Add custom balancer to always remove subConns into release/1.14.x #15836
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Backport
This PR is auto-generated from #15701 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.14.
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Fixes #10603
Description
Remove the need to call
UpdateState
twice by changing thepick_first
balancer's behavior to close existing connections (almost) every time.Testing & Reproduction steps
No net-new behavior; existing test
TestClientConnPool_IntegrationWithGRPCResolver_Rebalance
is still passing.Manually tested with frequent rebalancing
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