[PATCHES] Convert gencache to dbwrap to enable mutexes

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Wed Jun 25 06:05:08 MDT 2014


On 2014-06-25 at 13:35 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:18:27PM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > This would allow to use mutexes correctly
> > on gencache_notrans. In order to convert
> > it to dbwrap, we need to add a means of
> > using allrecord lock via dbrwap (it does
> > currently not offer it).
> 
> ... and I would try to avoid this. I'm not sure I want to
> think about implementing an allrecord lock for a ctdb
> database. I'd rather not go through dbwrap for
> gencache_notrans if that's the only reason to implement a
> dbwrap_allrecord_lock.

Right, but we could of course choose to *not* implement it
in the dbwrap_ctdb case...

Independently of the choice whether to do the allrecord
lock throught ctdb or not, do you think the above change
to gencache_stabilize (on the tdb level) would make sense?

Cheers - Michael
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