tdb: Make record deletion circular-chain safe
Before this patch we had 3 loops walking a hash chain to delete
records:
tdb_do_delete() to find the predecessor of the record that was to be
deleted. tdb_count_dead(), the name says it all and tdb_purge_dead()
to give back all dead records from a chain to the freelist.
This patch introduces tdb_trim_dead that walks a hash chain just
once. While it does so it counts the number of dead records, and all
records beyond tdb->max_dead_records are moved to the freelist.
Normal record deletion now works by always marking a record as dead in
step 1 and then calling tdb_trim_dead. This is made safe against
circular chains by doing the slow chain walk only in the case when we
did not delete a dead record during our walk.
It changes our dynamics a bit:
When deleting a record with non-zero max_dead_records, now we always
leave that number of records around when deleting, doing a blocking
lock on the freelist when we found too many dead records.
Previously when exceeding max_dead_records we wiped all dead records
to start accumulating them from scratch, assuming we could lock the
freelist in a nonblocking fashion.
The net effect for an uncontended freelist is the same: In
tdb_allocate() we still completely hand over all dead records to the
freelist when we could lock it, it just happens later than without
this patch.
This means for a lightly loaded system we will potentially leave more
dead records around in databases like locking.tdb. However, on a
heavily loaded system we become more predictable: If the freelist is
so heavily contended that across many deletes we can't get hold of it,
previously we accumulated more dead records than max_dead_records
would allow. This is a really lowlevel tradeoff that is likely hard to
measure, but to me becoming more deterministic without sacrificing too
much parallelism (we keep more dead records around) is worth trying.
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Tue Oct 30 02:48:38 CET 2018 on sn-devel-144