Can anyone see a reason to use REPEATABLE_READ as the JBoss Cache
isolation level in the 2nd level cache use case? I'm not seeing one, and
it certainly hurts performance by forcing cache writes to block waiting
for an earlier tx that did a read to commit.

There are 4 types of data cached:

1) Entities

If an entity is read from the 2LC, for the life of the tx it will be
cached in the Session, so AIUI there should be no second read during the
tx. So no benefit to RR.

2) Collections

Same as entities.

3) Queries

If an application executes a query twice in the same tx, I wouldn't
think they'd expect the same result. In any case, if an update to the
query cache is blocking waiting for a tx that previously read the query
result to release, the existence of the update that means the
underlying entities and their timestamps have changed. So a repeated
read of the cached query will just result in it being discarded as out
of date anyway.

4) Timestamps

Here you don't want an RR semantic. You always want to get the most
up-to-date data.


Anyone see any holes in my thinking?

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Brian Stansberry
Lead, JBoss AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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