[PATCH 00/10] Fix 'notmuch new' atomicity issues

Austin Clements amdragon at mit.edu
Sat May 28 19:51:10 PDT 2011


Rebased to current master (cb8418) as atomic-new-v4 (aka
for-review/atomic-new-v4).

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
> jrollins found a timing bug in the atomicity test.  A fix, plus beefed
> up test comments are on a new atomic-new-v3 (and
> for-review/atomic-new-v3) branch at
>  http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git/
> Since this is more than a rebase, I'll email an update to the one
> changed patch in the series.
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Bump.  Now rebased against current head (with no conflicts) on
>> atomic-new-v2 (and for-review/atomic-new-v2) at
>>  http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git/
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> This patch series modifies notmuch new to perform all operations
>>> atomically and to perform maildir flag synchronization eagerly.  As a
>>> result, notmuch new can be interrupted without risking database
>>> consistency or losing track of messages, but still without losing
>>> progress in the middle of a big import.  This also paves the way for
>>> fixing the antisocial locking behavior of notmuch new.
>>>
>>> While there are quite a few patches in the series, each one is
>>> bite-sized and you can see the number of atomicity violations dropping
>>> with nearly every patch using the test added by the first patch.
>>>
>>> On my test machine, these patches have no affect on performance.
>>>
>>> These patches are also available on the atomic-new-v1 branch at
>>>  http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git/
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> notmuch mailing list
>>> notmuch at notmuchmail.org
>>> http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
>>>
>>
>


More information about the notmuch mailing list