[infinispan-dev] Default TCP configuration is broken.

[Alan Field]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pedro Ruivo" <pedro at infinispan.org>
> To: "ispn-dev" <infinispan-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:59:21 AM
> Subject: [infinispan-dev] Default TCP configuration is broken.
> 
> Hi team,
> 
> The 'default-jgroups-tcp.xml" has MFC protocol without the FRAG2/3
> protocol. This is broken when we send a multicast message larger than
> 'max-credits'. It will block forever in MFC [1]. No timeouts since we
> don't have the CompletableFuture at this point.
> 
> Possible solutions are:
> 
> #1 put back FRAG2/3
> 
> advantage: we have multicast flow control.
> disadvantage: all messages are fragmented (unicast and multicast), that
> probably requires more resources (more messages in NAKACK and UNICAST
> tables?)

This is my preferred solution, since removing MFC did not work for me!

Thanks,
Alan

> 
> #2 remove MFC
> 
> advantage: probably low resources usages. TCP will handle any fragmentation.
> disadvantage: we don't have multicast flow control.
> 
> #3 alternative?
> 
> Cheers,
> Pedro
> 
> [1] actually, I need a thread dump to confirm it.
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