[PATCHES] Convert gencache to dbwrap to enable mutexes

[Michael Adam]

On 2014-06-25 at 14:19 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:05:08PM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Sure. But with your freelist patches, do we still need the
> wipe_all? This should be a nice test if freelist compaction
> actually works as designed :-)

Ok, sure!
But in that case I would do rather a second traverse of the
cache_notrans db and do tdb_delete there, in order not to
loose entries if the transaction on the persistent db fails.
Not as performant as using wipe_all probably, but still. :-)

Michael
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