The way it works now is to change values in the database (or text file) and
issue reload at once for all the records. The reload doesn't affect ongoing
traffic, the module loads first all records in a new structure and then it
swaps with the old one very quick. This is the reason that other modules do
similar thing, such as mtree.
The structures with the destinations of dispatcher module are optimised for
reading in the memory. What you want would require to put those structures
behind locks (mutexes) or add some more complex reference counting system in
order to block when writing. This could impact the performances significantly,
because read operations would also require to acquire the lock or the updates
can happen rather late as reference counter can be high with high traffic and
the write has to block new readers until old readers finish and it can update
in memory. Not sure if the above is clear, but in other words, I do not think
this is something we should add, it adds complexity, also at the expense of
performance.
I am closing it, personally I am not going to work on such features. However,
if you or someone else wants to discuss more, feel free to reopen. Also, if
someone wants to go and implement, we can review the patch and based on
performance results and the complexity, we can decide what we can do with it.
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