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Jukka Zitting commented on JCR-2786:
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My original thinking behind the syncCount mechanism from JCR-1753 was to skip 
the cluster sync if another thread completes the sync after the sync() method 
was entered. I missed the case where a thread performs the sync but is then 
delayed before it gets to the syncCount++ statement.

Your fix changes the logic from checking whether a sync was completed to 
whether a sync was *started* after the sync() method was entered, which raises 
the likelihood of extra cluster syncs. However, of the top of my head I don't 
see any good way to reliably track the completion of a cluster sync, so for now 
I think your solution is the best. At least it can only causes one extra 
cluster sync even if n threads were blocked waiting on syncLock.

PS: AtomicInteger enables a more elegant way to implement the 
check-and-increment operation:

if (count == syncCount.get()) {
    syncCount.incrementAndGet();
    ...
}

vs.

if (syncCount.compareAndSet(count, count + 1)) {
    ...;
}


> Cluster sync not always done when calling session.refresh(..)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JCR-2786
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2786
>             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: clustering
>            Reporter: Thomas Mueller
>            Assignee: Thomas Mueller
>
> Session.refresh(..) is supposed to synchronize cluster changes, but this 
> doesn't always happen, specially if the syncDelay is low. The reason is a 
> wrong assumption in ClusterNode.sync: The code there to avoid duplicate sync 
> calls doesn't always work as expected. The following algorithm is used:
>         int count = syncCount;
>         syncLock.acquire();
>         if (count == syncCount) {
>             journalSync();
>             syncCount++;
>         }
>         syncLock.release();
> The problem is that the background thread might be at the line "syncCount++" 
> when Session.refresh(..) is called, so that the main thread believes 
> journalSync was already called and thus doesn't call it.

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