[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBossCache] - Re: Eviction thread behaviour

[ben.wang@jboss.com]

"bstansberry at jboss.com" wrote : I understand what you mean about FIFO or max age, but if eviction doesn't respect locks that can lead to serious problems; i.e. user thread doing a get acquires a lock in PessimisticLockInterceptor, then eviction thread evicts node, then user thread reaches TreeCache._get, which does a findNode, gets nothing and returns null.  No chance to reload from the cache loader as the user thread is already past the interceptor.

No, eviction should still respect the locks, of which what it is doing now if I am correct. The question is the lock wait time, whether it is 0 or the regular setting.

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