This patch fixes a race condition in how transactions previously chose
the dispatch at transaction begin: default_dispatch in retry.cc was
read by transaction before they became either serial or nonserial
transactions (with the serial_lock). A concurrent change of
default_dispatch was possible
On 02/13/2012 03:03 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
-// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction.
-static GTM::abi_dispatch* default_dispatch = 0;
+// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction. Initialized
+// in number_of_threads_changed() below.
+static
