[PATCH] nscd: bump GC cycle during cache pruning (bug 26130)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Sep 10 09:58:01 GMT 2020
* Andreas Schwab:
> On Sep 09 2020, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>> Is a relaxed atomic suffice here?
>
> I don't really know.
>
>> Other accesses are not done with atomic at all, so I am not sure how
>> well defined are the 'gc_cycle' usage.
>
> It won't be worse the the current state, will it?
I think that's true, but in the past, Carlos and Torvald both objected
very strongly to partial improvements in code suffering from concurrency
issues. I'd say give them a few days to comment, and commit your patch
some time next week.
Thanks,
Florian
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