[jbosscache-dev] Re: Non Blocking State Transfer Status (& Integration with JGroups)

> Why the multicast address ? State transfer should be between 2 nodes, > a provider and a requester, so it should always be unicast. If we > bring partial flush into the mix, where we block only the 2 > participants in the state transfer, then we should be OK. Not sure if > we should do a partial or a full flush though... Ah! There is my disconnect. I somehow had it in my head that the jgroups UDP transport used a multicast socket for everything, and that UNICAST packets where just emulated on top of that. I should have looked at the code. That pretty much eliminates my concern. Although IMO a bare tcp connection would still be the most optimal form of transferring large state to a single node since the kernel and the hardware is doing all the work. That can be saved for a future optimization though ;)