Thread safety and rollback

adrian.brock Dec 20, 2007 1:14 PM

I know this is "invalid usage", but it still shouldn't lead to broken behaviour. :-)

See the test in jboss-4.2

$ ./build.sh one-test -Dtest=org.jboss.test.tm.test.CompetingRollbackStressTestCase

This is stress test for a race condition (two threads invoking rollback
"at the same time"). I'm seeing the transaction synchronizations getting invoked twice.

 <testcase classname="org.jboss.test.tm.test.CompetingRollbackStressTestCase" name="testExecuteSQLDuringRollback" time="7.132">
 <error message="Synchronization invoked 2 times" type="org.jboss.test.util.ejb.RemoteTestException">java.lang.RuntimeException: Synchronization invoked 2 times
 at org.jboss.test.tm.test.CompetingRollbackStressTestCase$Main.test(CompetingRollbackStressTestCase.java:136)
 at org.jboss.test.tm.test.CompetingRollbackStressTestCase$TestRunnable.run(CompetingRollbackStressTestCase.java:193)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

NOTE: This is a stress test, so you'll probably have to make it do
lots of iterations to reproduce the problem. e.g. start jboss with

$ ./run.sh -Djbosstest.iterationcount=10000

and maybe run it a few times?

1. Re: Thread safety and rollback

marklittle Dec 20, 2007 7:04 PM (in response to adrian.brock)

Participants (two phase and synchronizations) may get called multiple times in the event of certain types of failures (e.g., the tm sends a prepare, doesn't get a response and so sends it again) so they should expect this kind of behaviour. But in this case it isn't a failure, it's a bug ;-)
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