I'd like to do the PR, but could you please confirm to me that it's safe to
use non-volatile field? I believe this should be the case.

Viliam

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 12:25 AM Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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