[jbosscache-dev] Re: JGroups and concurrent FLUSHes

[Bela Ban]

It would be mainly used to prevent A from releasing a lock owned by B. 
Create a simple lock yourself, inside of FLUSH

Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
> On 3/8/09 9:59 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
>> I think we should turn flushInProgress into something akin to a lock, 
>> which additionally records its locker. So if you have a 
>> lock.tryAcquire(Object caller) which fails immediately if the lock is 
>> already locked by someone != caller.
>>
>> A lock.release(Object caller) fails if lock.owner != caller.
> This is to prevent multiple threads in one stack invoking startFlush? 
> Which lock class do you recommend?
>

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / JBoss Clustering team
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