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[jira] Closed: (POOL-75) [pool] GenericObjectPool not FIFO with respect to borrowing threads

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/POOL-75?page=all ]
     
Sandy McArthur closed POOL-75:
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    Resolution: Later

Untill Pool can use the util.concurrent package this will have to wait.

> [pool] GenericObjectPool not FIFO with respect to borrowing threads
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: POOL-75
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/POOL-75
>      Project: Commons Pool
>         Type: Improvement

>     Versions: Nightly Builds
>  Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
>     Reporter: Gordon Mohr
>     Priority: Minor

>
> GenericObjectPool has recently been made FIFO with respect to the managed pool
> objects -- however, it is still not FIFO with respect to threads requesting
> those objects. Specifically, because standard non-fair Java synchronization
> monitors are used, later threads may barge ahead of earlier threads that are
> already waiting for a pool object to become available. At its extreme, some
> threads can cycle objects through the pool many times while others wait
> interminable. 
> Not every application needs FIFO fairness with respect to threads, and such
> fairness implies an overhead, so it  need not be the default behavior, but it
> would be a valuable option where many threads are sharing a smaller number of
> pool objects. 
> I can submit a FairGenericObjectPool which achieves thread-fairness; it only
> requires small changes to GenericObjectPool which allow some subclass overriding.

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