Hello,

I post an answer I received from Andrei, which completes and extends his first 
answer on the subject.

Regards,
Ari

From: Andrei Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:02 PM
To: Ari Erev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Concurrent threads updating the same cache item


Hi,

Ignite will execute the logic of compute task in separate Runnable instance 
that will be executed in a single thread of 
https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/thread-pools#section-public-pool.<https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/thread-pools#section-public-pool>

So one compute will be executed in one thread on the same node.

But in case if you start several distributed computes tasks and they will work 
with the same caches then yes it's possible that there will be the race between 
them and you will require to synchronize the operations.

It fully depends on your logic - should you lock on a “read then update” 
scenario or not.

BR,
Andrei


From: Andrei Aleksandrov 
<[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:47 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Concurrent threads updating the same cache item


Hi,

When you start the compute task then it (and code from there) will be executed 
on every server (that were chosen) consistently in the single thread.

But if you will try to broadcast the same task on several servers then race 
between different tasks on different servers is possible in this case. To avoid 
it you can try to use the transactions API (to provide atomicity of 
get-update-put operation) or distributed locks for updated keys:

https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/transactions
https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/distributed-locks<https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/distributed-locks>

BR,
Andrei
9/5/2019 5:41 PM, Ari Erev пишет:
Hello,

This question is related to the question by “humenius”,  with subject: “Race 
condition and conflicts during cache modifications?” – but I believe it is a 
simpler case…

When code is run on an Ignite server node (such as from a distributed compute, 
or service)  – is all access to a specific object (object with a specific key) 
– done from one (the same) specific thread?

The reason I am asking is this:
Some examples of Ignite code on GitHub and the ones that are embedded in White 
Paper articles from GridGain contain the following conceptual code 
(incrementing a value in the cache).

My_Object  obj = cache.get(key);

                  obj.increment_value();

                 cache.put(key, obj);


If this code is executed concurrently from more than one thread, there is a 
risk for inconsistency, as the new/incremented value may overwrite a cached 
value which is already different than it was at the time of the cache.get().
If so, should such code be synchronized (use some sort of lock)?

Thanks,
Ari


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