Re: [infinispan-dev] [jgroups-dev] StressTest: Can JGroups provide a callback to do marshalling after real_dests have been calculated?

Hi Bela & co, While investigating your stress test, I've found a few interesting things. I'm gonna split in 2 emails: 1.- First of all, a week ago filled https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-237 jira in order for dist commands that should only affect the local machine not to go remove. While investigating your stress test, I've found out that JGroups' MessageDispatcher.castMessage already does that! if(tmp != null && tmp.getOpt(Channel.LOCAL).equals(Boolean.FALSE)) { if(local_addr == null) { local_addr=tmp.getAddress(); } if(local_addr != null) { real_dests.removeElement(local_addr); } } That code empties the real_dests if the target is the local address. So, you're probably wondering why I filled https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-237? It's because marshalling happens before the code above gets executed. In fact, it happens at the beginning of ReplicationTask.call() and the JGroups optimization happens when castMessage() is called from ReplicationTask.call(). So, I think my fix for https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-237 is not optimal. JGroups already knows when the call should stay local, so ISPN should need to do this calculation again, it's wasteful code. The real fix would be to somehow be able to do marshalling only if the code in MessageDispatcher.castMessage() said that real_dests was not empty. Bela, do you think JGroups could be enhanced to have a callback after the code shown above where we can invoke marshalling? Cheers,