Re: Scoreboard redesign

[dean gaudet]

On Sun, 20 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Having said that, the locking issue is a much bigger deal with linked
> lists than was mentioned on-list last week.  The child process will
> have to walk the list whenever mod_status is called, which means that
> the child process will have to lock the scoreboard while serving
> status requests.

there are concurrency issues no matter what you do.

consider what happens if one processor is half-way through setting up the
request uri when another process tries to make a /server-status page out
of it.

(even the "safe access" foo for the vhostrec in 1.3's scoreboard is not
really safe... it would need volatiles and memory barriers to be safe.)

-dean