[infinispan-dev] XAResource.recover

[Jonathan Halliday]

On 03/11/2011 04:37 PM, Mircea Markus wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> We're thinking to implement the following optimisation around recovery and want to run it by you first.
>
> As discussed, XAResource.recover broadcasts a call to all cluster members, and all the prepared transactions initiated by this node's TM would be returned from this method.
> What we are thinking is the following: only perform the broadcast once, the first time XARespurce.recover is called. After that keep track of the prepared tx that originated on the same node, and return this list only *without* doing the broadcast.
> Do you see any problem this approach?

It's valid only if all nodes responded to the initial broadcast. In 
other cases there may be outstanding tx you never learn about.

> One more (unrelated) question: how does a TM determine that a tx pertains to it or not. Based on Xid's branch identifier perhaps?

The TM constructs Xids that embed a (hopefully) uniq node id. By default 
the recovery system only processes Xids that match.

> We might do some further optimisations based on this.

tricky, as you don't know the Xid format, or which TM you are talking to 
on any given recover call.

Jonathan.

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