Hyrum K Wright <hyrum.wright_at_wandisco.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:31 AM, <stefan2_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: stefan2
>> Date: Sat Mar 3 11:31:17 2012
>> New Revision: 1296604
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1296604&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Certain operations, e.g. svn ls, will contain timestamp and author
>> information from many different revisions. A list of all projects
>> in the root of the wordpress repository will open, read and close
>>>75.000 revision property files (3 reads for each list entry)
>>
>> This commit implements revprop caching. It will be activated as
>> part of the full-text caching option.
>>
>> Since revprops may be written by other threads or processes, we
>> need to track the revprop changes. A new special file contains a
>> counter that will be increased each time revision properties get
>> rewritten.
>>
>> This counter is internally called "revprop generation" and will be
>> read upon the first revprop access for given fs_t. Later changes
>> may remain invisible for that fs_t. This behavior is in line with
>> our revprop handling in other parts of FS_FS. If a revprop gets
>> rewritten, the fs_t doing the write will use the new generation
>> from that point on and will thus see all caches up to and including
>> its own.
>>
>> Since the revprop generation becomes part of the cache key, each
>> fs_t will only see revprops from its generation. It may also
>> create new cache entries tagged with that generation, i.e. those
>> would appear to be outdated for newer fs_t. But that will simply
>> cause a benign false negative upon lookup. No fs_t will see
>> data that got replaced before that fs_t was created.
>
> How does this potentially interact with revprop packing?
What about atomic revprop changes? I don't see what ensures that the
old value read by change_rev_prop_body is the most up-to-date value.
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