yeah this looks silly: do you want to open a PR to fix?

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 6:39 AM Viliam Ďurina <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at `OnHeapHnswGraph` code and noticed that the volatile field
> `graphRamBytesUsed` is modified in `addNode` in a racy way:
>
>   long bytesUsed = graphRamBytesUsed;
>   graphRamBytesUsed = bytesUsed + l;
>
> This is equivalent to `graphRamBytesUsed += l`.
>
> This code is susceptible to lost update due to non-atomic read-modify-write
> operation.
>
> I guess the it's not really a problem, because this code is in fact
> single-threaded when documents are added to the index. It might be
> concurrent during merging, but then `ramBytesUsed()` isn't called, and it's
> a wasted work.
>
> If the above assumption is correct, then this field should not be volatile
> to improve performance. If it's not, it should be replaced with
> `AtomicLong` or `LongAdder`.
>
> Viliam

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