[concurrency-interest] BoundedPriorityBlockingQueue ?
Brian Goetz
brian at quiotix.com
Tue Sep 12 14:34:39 EDT 2006
> That does sound tricky, but I would think unblocking them in a FIFO
> order of arrival should usually be good enough ?
I don't think FIFO adds much (and it costs something). The problem is,
what if a low-priority, but long-running task wins the unblocking race
against a high-priority task? It could delay the high-priority task a
lot. The effects of this are smaller if (a) the queue size is large or
(b) the number of workers is large; this is really only a problem if the
worker pool AND the queue are small.
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