Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/22995#discussion_r236471154 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/broadcast/TorrentBroadcast.scala --- @@ -92,8 +95,15 @@ private[spark] class TorrentBroadcast[T: ClassTag](obj: T, id: Long) /** The checksum for all the blocks. */ private var checksums: Array[Int] = _ - override protected def getValue() = { - _value + override protected def getValue() = synchronized { --- End diff -- I noticed that below, the readBroadcastBlock() method is synchronized on the companion object, which makes me nervous. However a lazy val is also implemented with `this.synchronized`, so I suspect this is fine. We pay the cost of synchronization on every call now, but I think that is OK here, as a simple flag won't help us figure out whether the SoftReference has been cleared.
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