[Ace-users] [ace-users] Singlethread servant upcall (using CSD)

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Jochen,

   I think you'll need to check with the OCI folks about how to
achieve this using CSD since they wrote this code!

Thanks,

Doug

>ext Douglas C. Schmidt wrote:
>(...)
>>> in the meantime we found the problem. We have to use the Wait-on-Read 
>>> Wait Strategy. 
>
>Unfortunately we can't use this option because we run into a deadlock 
>situation when two processes took over the client role and try to call 
>each other.
>
>>>
>>> The "borrowing"  of other threads by the ORB caused serious racing 
>>> conditions. I'm really wondering why this is the default when the POA 
>>> is configured with the thread policy 
>>> PortableServer::SINGLE_THREAD_MODEL.
>> 
>> The ORB and the POA policies are at different levels of abstraction
>> and should be completely orthogonal.
>> 
>
>Our basic problem is that incoming calls can overtake each other by being 
>processed in different threads. The main reason for taking the client 
>strategy factory "Wait-on-Read Wait" (rw) was to avoid the borrowing of 
>other threads for incoming calls. 
>
>Because we've implemented a CSD Strategy which queues these calls for 
>later dispatching in an other thread it is simply the order of the 
>incoming calls which leads to problems in our application.
>
>Is it possible to achieve that the ORB didn't borrows an other thread 
>without blocking?
>
>Gruss Jochen
>-- 
>Jochen Rothenbacher     Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG
>                        EMail: jochen.rothenbacher at nsn.com


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