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In dist sync tx (optimistic, read committed) mode I'd expect that in this situation: A=1, B=1 startTx write A=2 write B=2 endTx if on different node I read B=2, it implies that A=2. However, as entries are committed during the commit phase in non-defined order (according to context map iteration order), it may happen that B is committed to 2, B is read as 2, A is read as 1 and only after that A is committed to 2. That is pretty unexpected semantics. It even means that the transactions are not atomic with regards to read operations.
Mircea Markus <mmarkus> made a comment on jira ISPN-3451 Even if the entries would be committed in a defined order in which they hace been written, the problem still exists due to Infinispan's distributed nature. For simplicity let's consider that both A and B are owned by N1 and N2. There is a moment in which the TX is committed on N2 but not yes committed on N1. All the tx that would read the data from N2 would see the new value, the others seeing the old one. If the users really require this semantic, they should use Flag.FORCE_WRITE_LOCK on read operations as well. Possible that [~pruivo]'s GMU to handle this scenario implicitly, Pedro care to comment?
Mircea Markus <mmarkus> updated the status of jira ISPN-3451 to Resolved
Pedro Ruivo <pedroruivo2> made a comment on jira ISPN-3451 True, GMU achieves (Extended-) Updated Serializability. So, if you have a read operation, you will see both A and B equals to 1 or A and B equals to 2 depending if your tx starts after or before the commit of the write transaction. Of course we have the cost of keeping multiple versions for a key in the data container and more restrict validation phase. Also, read-only transactions can read a old snapshot (i.e. it's not the most recent). but that snapshot is always consistent!