On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:05:00PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> More locking-related tweaks - is the private locking a leftover from the
> 4.1-4.2 days of locking horrors (which I can certainly understand ;),
> never since revisited or decision based on current experiences?
Both, actually. I stayed with a global lock because of
1) the NPTL lock horrors
2) berkeley db lock cleanup problems
3) a fine grained lock makes no sense anyway, as transactions
mustn't overlap. That's why newer rpms have the transaction lock.
(Which also makes find grained locking obsolete...)
Cheers,
Michael.
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