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I was going through the source code of ArrayBlockingQueue and LinkedBlockingQueue. LinkedBlockingQueue has a putLock and a takeLock for insertion and removal respectively but ArrayBlockingQueue uses only 1 lock. I believe LinkedBlockingQueue was implemented based on the design described in Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms. In this paper, they mention that they keep a dummy node so that enqueuers never have to access head and dequeuers never have to access tail which avoids deadlock scenarios. I was wondering why ArrayBlockingQueue doesn't borrow the same idea and use 2 locks instead.
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ArrayBlockingQueue class is a bounded blocking queue backed by an array. By bounded, it means that the size of the Queue is fixed. Once created, the capacity cannot be changed. Attempts to put an element into a full queue will result in the operation blocking.
BlockingQueue implementations are thread-safe. All queuing methods achieve their effects atomically using internal locks or other forms of concurrency control.
The LinkedBlockingQueue is an optionally-bounded blocking queue based on linked nodes. It means that the LinkedBlockingQueue can be bounded, if its capacity is given, else the LinkedBlockingQueue will be unbounded. The capacity can be given as a parameter to the constructor of LinkedBlockingQueue.
ArrayBlockingQueue has to avoid overwriting entries so that it needs to know where the start and the end is. A LinkedBlockQueue doesn't need to know this as it lets the GC worry about cleaning up Nodes in the queue.
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