[infinispan-dev] optimistic locking :: Flag.FORCE_WRITE_LOCK

[Manik Surtani]

That would work, but that would be of limited value and pretty meaningless.

Perhaps just document the FORCE_W_L flag to only be respected in a pessimistically locked cache?

On 5 Sep 2011, at 10:13, Mircea Markus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In default mode, when:
> advancedCache.withFlags(Flag.FORCE_WRITE_LOCK).get("k")
> gets executed a W lock is acquired on "k". With the new optimistic locking model we only acquire a locks at prepare time, so the semantic of the above call might need to change.
> What I have in mind is to force the W lock acquisition to happen but only at prepare time - how does that sound?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mircea
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