On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Henry Jen <henry...@ztune.net> wrote: > OK, I tried this on my OpenSolaris box, and believe I figured out what > is going on. > > The dead-lock happens when the initial one worker thread get into idle > first as no tasks are pushed yet, then two push comes in. Under this > circumstance, there is one thread idle, thus no new thread will be > created. > > Now the idle thread get to pick up the first task, but is blocked, > thus no other thread will pick up the second task, which caused the > dead-lock. > > As explained, this scenario is not supported by design as we expect > the task should not be blocking. Understood the cooperative approach > is not optimal, but that is all we needed at that moment and simplify > things a lot.
Thanks a bunch for looking!
