Github user afine commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/186#discussion_r105300714 --- Diff: src/java/main/org/apache/zookeeper/server/NettyServerCnxnFactory.java --- @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ public void messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, MessageEvent e) + " from " + ctx.getChannel()); } NettyServerCnxn cnxn = (NettyServerCnxn)ctx.getAttachment(); - synchronized(cnxn) { + synchronized(cnxn.getRpcLock()) { processMessage(e, cnxn); --- End diff -- >> Now one thread can be in processMessage while another thread is getting stats about the connection. Is that ok? > I believe this is OK. We can receive two concurrent stat commands, but we only process one of them at a time. I'm also not a Netty wizard, so I could be wildly wrong :) This should be OK since all fields printed by `synchronized void dumpConnectionInfo(PrintWriter pwriter, boolean brief)` are only updated in `synchronized` methods. Another option would be to put a shared lock on the command's execution (shared with any other 4LW that acquires a lock on a connection other than its own, I THINK `cons` is the only other one)? I think this may impact 4LW performance slightly but it would prevent the need to add another lock to `NettyServerCnxn`. I think I like your way better.
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