[infinispan-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ISPN-2552) Support concurrent updates for non-transactional caches

[Mircea Markus (JIRA)]

Mircea Markus created ISPN-2552:
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             Summary: Support concurrent updates for non-transactional caches 
                 Key: ISPN-2552
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2552
             Project: Infinispan
          Issue Type: Feature Request
    Affects Versions: 5.1.0.FINAL
            Reporter: Mircea Markus
            Assignee: Mircea Markus
             Fix For: 5.2.0.CR1


for non-transactional caches, when a key is updated, a local lock is acquired and also a lock on all the owning nodes as well. This is very inefficient for concurrent updates as it is very deadlock-prone.
The following locking approach should solve this problem at the cost of an additional RPC: 
- 'k' is written on node A, owners(k)={B,C}
- A forwards the given command to B
- B acquires a lock on 'k' then it forwards it to the remaining owners: C
- C applies the change and returns to B (no lock acquisition is needed)
- B applies the result as well, releases the lock and returns the result of the operation to A.

  Note that even though this introduces an additional RPC (the forwarding), it behaves very well in conjunction with consistent-hash aware hotrod clients which connect directly to the lock owner.


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