Message ordering of Get and Invalidation can cause L1 to be inconsistent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: ISPN-3197 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-3197 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 5.2.6.Final Reporter: William Burns Assignee: William Burns This is based off of discussion here: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2990?focusedCommentId=12779491&p... This can occur with a synchronous cache. 1. A reads k1. This is an OOB call. 2. B processes the read message and sends back the response 3. C updates k1, at this stage B sends the invalidation message to A (OOB call) 4. A processes(ignores) the invalidation message 5. A puts the stale value sent at 2 in L1 The OOB portions don't actually matter that they are OOB as even if B's messages were ordered it sill could process the get and update in a different order since they originate from different nodes. The initial thought is to solve this with some type of tombstone to sygnal the removal of the L1 cache, but this also still doesn't catch the problem if A did not have key k1 in it's L1 cache to receive an invalidation message.