System and method for supporting waiting thread notification offloading in a distributed data grid

A system for supporting waiting-thread notification offloading, the system comprising:

• a computer system having a memory and a processor, wherein the processor has a plurality of cores and is capable of multi-threaded operation;
• a multi-threaded messaging system operating on said computer system and having a service thread, a plurality of active threads, and a plurality of waiting threads;
• a pending notifier collection stored in said memory and comprising a plurality of pending notifiers associated with said plurality of waiting threads;
• wherein an active thread in said plurality of active threads is configured to determine that the active thread is ready to enter a wait state;
• and
• wherein the active thread is configured such that, instead of entering said wait state, the active thread signals pending notifiers of the plurality of pending notifiers in the pending notifier collection and wakes awoken threads associated with said pending notifiers.

A non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions stored thereon for supporting waiting-thread notification offloading in a multi-threaded messaging system having a service thread and a plurality of active threads, which instructions, when executed, cause a computer system to perform steps comprising:

• maintaining a pending notifier collection comprising a plurality of pending notifiers associated with a plurality of waiting threads;
• determining in an active thread that the active thread is ready to enter a wait state;
• and
• signaling with the active thread pending notifiers of the plurality of pending notifiers in the pending notifier collection and waking awoken threads associated with said pending notifiers.