阅读ArrayBlockingQueue源码,很容易知道有界阻塞队列的长度至少为1,也就是至少能缓存下一个数据。长度为0的阻塞队列是没有意义的,因为生产者不能生产,消费者不能消费。但是SynchronousQueue的javadoc文档提到A synchronous queue does not have any internal capacity, not even a capacity of one。也就说同步队列的容量是0,不会缓存数据。
下面的代码片段使用了长度为1的BlockingQueue,可以看到2个生产者有1个会被阻塞(因为队列已满)。
package concurrent;
import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
public class TestSynchronousQueue
{
private static ArrayBlockingQueue<String> queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<String>(1);
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
new Productor(1).start();
new Productor(2).start();
System.out.println("main over.");
}
static class Productor extends Thread
{
private int id;
public Productor(int id)
{
this.id = id;
}
@Override
public void run()
{
try
{
String result = "id=" + this.id;
System.out.println("begin to produce."+result);
queue.put(result);
System.out.println("success to produce."+result);
} catch (InterruptedException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
static class Consumer extends Thread
{
@Override
public void run()
{
try
{
System.out.println("consume begin.");
String v = queue.take();
System.out.println("consume success." + v);
} catch (InterruptedException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
这段代码的输出结果如下:
main over.
begin to produce.id=1
begin to produce.id=2
success to produce.id=1
现在我们将长度为1的阻塞队列换成SynchronousQueue试试看
package concurrent;
import java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue;
public class TestSynchronousQueue
{
private static SynchronousQueue<String> queue = new SynchronousQueue<String>();
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
new Productor(1).start();
new Productor(2).start();
System.out.println("main over.");
}
static class Productor extends Thread
{
private int id;
public Productor(int id)
{
this.id = id;
}
@Override
public void run()
{
try
{
String result = "id=" + this.id;
System.out.println("begin to produce."+result);
queue.put(result);
System.out.println("success to produce."+result);
} catch (InterruptedException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
static class Consumer extends Thread
{
@Override
public void run()
{
try
{
System.out.println("consume begin.");
String v = queue.take();
System.out.println("consume success." + v);
} catch (InterruptedException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
这段代码的输出结果如下:可以看到2个生产者线程都被阻塞了,无法进行生产。
main over.
begin to produce.id=1
begin to produce.id=2
可以看出SynchronousQueue和BlockingQueue的区别了:在没有消费者的情况下,长度为1的阻塞队列可以让生产者生产1个商品并存储在阻塞队列中;而同步队列不允许生产者进行生产。可以看到同步队列有这样的特性:producer waits until consumer is ready, consumer waits until producer is ready。
下面的代码用2个生产者和1个消费者,可以分别使用阻塞队列和同步队列看下输出的情况。
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
new Consumer().start();
Thread.sleep(200);
new Productor(1).start();
new Productor(2).start();
System.out.println("main over.");
}
stackoverflowerror上这篇文章很好地演示了SynchronousQueue的使用场景:
I have a requirement for a task to be executed asynchronously while discarding any further requests until the task is finished.
public class SyncQueueTester {
private static ExecutorService executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(1, 1,
1000, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
new SynchronousQueue<Runnable>(),
new ThreadPoolExecutor.DiscardPolicy());
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
kickOffEntry(i);
Thread.sleep(200);
}
executor.shutdown();
}
private static void kickOffEntry(final int index) {
executor.
submit(
new Callable<Void>() {
public Void call() throws InterruptedException {
System.out.println("start " + index);
Thread.sleep(1000); // pretend to do work
System.out.println("stop " + index);
return null;
}
}
);
}
}