[infinispan-dev] Meaning of locking in Infinispan: ISPN-1546 and better general throughput

[Paolo Romano]

On 12/7/11 5:00 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> On 7 December 2011 16:50, Manik Surtani<manik at jboss.org>  wrote:
>> On 7 Dec 2011, at 16:45, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>
>> We need to pick some solid names. "Logical lock" sounds good for the
>> user visible locks ? "Internal Lock" for our own?
>>
>> Data Lock and Structure Lock?
> +1, much more descriptive.
> This is ISPN-1599
>
> Sanne
I think what you're describing here is typically referred to, in 
database literature, as latches (short term internal locks) vs locks 
(typically transaction-long locks).

Cheers,

     Paolo