Re: comments, please: rev 7706 - trunk/subversion/libsvn_repos

--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 16:31:19 -0800 Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
wrote:

> My concern around this is if the deltification process holds locks for a
> "long time", then its lower priority could cause the locks to be held
> longer than necessary, which then delays the processes we actually want to
> operate "fast". Of course, the OS should "bump" the priority of the
> deltify if everybody is waiting for its locks.
>
> Any ways... it seems like it should be fine, but wanted to ask the list
> whether anybody can see a problem here.

On Unix, if it's pthread locks, some OSes (i.e. Solaris) will detect the
priority inversion and deal with it by bumping the lower priority process
to the priority of the process that is waiting on the locks (as you
described). But, I'm not really sure if that applies to file-based locks
or even BDB locks for that matter. -- justin

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Received on Wed Nov 12 21:29:15 2003