[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JGRP-2099) TP: one single thread pool

[Bela Ban (JIRA)]

Bela Ban created JGRP-2099:
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             Summary: TP: one single thread pool
                 Key: JGRP-2099
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-2099
             Project: JGroups
          Issue Type: Feature Request
            Reporter: Bela Ban
            Assignee: Bela Ban


Currently, TP has 4 thread pools:
* OOB
* Regular
* Internal
* Timer (used by TimeScheduler3)

The reason for this was mainly to prevent certain types of tasks from getting dropped due to a full pool. However, this can be changed by (1) making the pool have no queue and (2) handling the RejectedExecutionException (e.g. by spawning a new thread, or upping the max-threads value) for (e.g.) INTERNAL messages and timer tasks.

This not only simplify configuration (1 config section rather than 4), but also reduce the size of TP (removal of accessors, attributes). Things might also become a bit faster as a result.

The new common pool would have the following characteristics:
* Default rejection policy of "abort" (so we can handle pool exhaustion)
* No queue ({{SynchronousQueue}}), so new threads up to max-threads are created if none of the existing ones are available. The queue config attribute will be removed
* An additional parameter {{important}} for the {{execute()}} and {{scheduleXXX()}} methods. If set, a new thread will be spawned on a RejectedExecutionException. This will be used mainly by INTERNAL messages and timer tasks
* Alternatively, we could increase max-threads (if {{ergonomics==true}}) if we get a constant rate of these exceptions



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