[SR-Users] htable locking

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 10:26:25 CET 2014


On 07/11/14 22:54, Alex Balashov wrote:
> On 11/07/2014 04:45 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>> Using sht_lock() and accessing an item on the same slot is ending up in
>> a deadlock.
>>
>> Should be avoided for the moment -- I didn't have time to look for a
>> solution with the work on releases during the past days.
>>
>> The share hash table is available to all processing, the access to items
>> is synchronized. So if two processes need to access exactly the same
>> item, then one waits for the other. However, accessing the same item at
>> the same time is not that common, as each worker handles different
>> traffic, but it is a possibility.
>
> It is indeed a possibility if one is using it to store global
> variables, as it is the only "kind of nonscalar" structure available
> for that purpose besides the very primitive global $shv().
>
For the records, the master branch has a patch for allowing re-entrant
locking of the slot from same process, so the issue should be fixed.

Cheers,
Daniel

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