[infinispan-dev] thoughts on CacheLoader concurrency

Manik Surtani manik at jboss.org
Mon May 24 09:43:59 EDT 2010


On 24 May 2010, at 14:42, Mircea Markus wrote:

> I don't see any guarantee that the thread calling e.g. TxInterceptor. at Inject(which sets transactionLog) is same with the thread calling visitPutKeyValueCommand (which accesses transactionLog) - latter is user thread which we do not control (or at least async pool thread)

True, makes sense.

> 
> On 24 May 2010, at 16:35, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> 
>> On 24 May 2010, at 14:32, Mircea Markus wrote:
>> 
>>> What about the fields in the interceptors?
>> 
>> Only if there is a @Stop associated with the interceptors that use those fields, IMO
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 24 May 2010, at 16:28, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 24 May 2010, at 13:41, Mircea Markus wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> AbstractCacheLoader.int looks like this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> @Override
>>>>> public void init(CacheLoaderConfig config, Cache<?, ?> cache, Marshaller m) throws CacheLoaderException {
>>>>>  this.marshaller = m;
>>>>>  if (config == null) throw new IllegalStateException("Null config!!!");
>>>>>  this.cache = cache;
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> This sets the non-volatile fields marshaller and cache.  AbstractCacheLoader.int is called by the thread that starts the CacheManager which is different from e.g. expiration thread or other application threads. Shouldn't we safely publish  these fields by making them volatile?
>>>> 
>>>> Fair point, it makes sense.
>>>> 
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