On 20.01.2019 19:52, Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote: > Can cn=config have 2 lock levels? That fixes this ITS (my > ldapwhoami hang) without introducing cn=config failures. > > The outer lock serializes cn=config ops including the indexer. > Other ops do not lock it. The inner lock blocks slapd like > cn=config does now, and should only be held briefly. Always > hold the outer lock when taking the inner lock.
Correction again: while taking and holding the inner lock. Except non-config ops. > Also, the inner lock could be taken and released several > times during a config op when feasible. That might improve > non-config op latency, for the price of slower config ops.
