Howard Chu wrote:
In fact, running test008 with an accesslog overlay that uses a single
mutex on the write ops actually completes faster than normal, because
back-bdb never hits any deadlocks. (Quite a bit faster, 2x at least.)
So I guess this approach is acceptable.
The assignment of CSNs to operations needs to occur later though. ModRdn
is fine, because it doesn't get a CSN until the backend calls
slap_modrdn2mods. But Add, Delete, and Modify all assign the CSN in the
frontend, before the accesslog's mutex is locked, so CSNs are still
allocated in an uncontrolled order. I'm thinking that all of the
assignments should be invoked from the backend. But that means that other
modules that call into backends would need to do the graduate() call that
the frontend does right now. I guess the simplest would be for the
accesslog overlay to just replace the CSN the frontend assigned with a
new one. Or add a backend flag "SLAP_DBFLAG_DEFER_CSN" that tells the
frontend not to assign it, because someone else will. ...?