[Kst] [PATCH] Improve locking performance and reduce deadlocks

[Barth Netterfield]

Good.  We are about to leave on our drive home from Texas, so I won't be able 
to test things much until the weekend.

One thing I noticed is that datamode with equations and plugins seemed like a 
particularly easy place to get a deadlock.

cbn

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 06:44, George Staikos wrote:
>    Eli and I spent more time working on locking and we discovered that it's
> not necessary to lock as much as we have been doing.  This coincidentally
> fixes many deadlock scenarios (though not all of them), and at the same
> time appears to give a huge performance boost.  Patch is attached, but
> needs testing.  Please provide some feedback on this patch -without-
> --with-one-lock enabled.  I'd like to commit this ASAP.  I think this is
> the reason why deadlocks became more visible recently.  Meanwhile we're
> working on fixing the rest of the problem (removing recursive locking in
> the tree), and hopefully we'll have a patch for that next week.