[concurrency-interest] LinkedBlockingDeque deadlock?

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Wed Jul 8 00:05:44 UTC 2009


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Doug Lea and I are (slowly) working on a new version of LinkedBlockingDeque.
I was not aware of a deadlock but can vaguely imagine how it might happen.
A small reproducible test case from you would be useful.

Unfinished work in progress can be found here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/BlockingQueue/

Martin

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:30, Ariel Weisberg <ariel at weisberg.ws> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I did a search on LinkedBlockingDeque and didn't find anything similar
> to what I am seeing. Attached is the stack trace from an application
> that is deadlocked with three threads waiting for 0x00002aaab3e91080
> (threads "ExecutionSite: 26", "ExecutionSite:27", and "Network
> Selector"). The execution sites are attempting to offer results to the
> deque and the network thread is trying to poll for them using the
> non-blocking version of poll. I am seeing the network thread never
> return from poll (straight poll()). Do my eyes deceive me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ariel Weisberg
>
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