[infinispan-dev] tx and lock acquisition timeouts

[Mircea Markus]

On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:43, Manik Surtani wrote:

> You mean when a transaction times out?  Or when a task within the transaction throws a TimeoutException within Infinispan (such as timeouts on lock acquisition or RPC)?
timeout on lock acquisition.
> 
> If it is the former, then the transaction manager aborts the transaction and calls for a rollback.  
yes
> The latter would propagate to the transaction manager as an application error and also trigger an abort/rollback.
it's in our control what to do in this situation, as this happens on the user's thread and doesn't involve the TM. If we cannot acquire locks for a timeout shall we:
- throw the TE to the user (we already do that)
- mark the tx for rollback OR just  leave the tx as it is and allow the user to retry?

E.g.:

tm.begin()
caceh.put(k1); //this throws TE - what would be the status of the transaction after TE is thrown?