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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Sergey!

ok to push

On Mar 25, Sergey Vojtovich wrote:
> revision-id: 0fa832dc426 (mariadb-10.3.12-97-g0fa832dc426)
> parent(s): 6f14489ad31
> author: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> committer: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> timestamp: 2019-03-21 17:17:26 +0400
> message:
> 
> Revert THD::THD(skip_global_sys_var_lock) argument
> 
> Originally introduced by e972125f1 to avoid harmless wait for
> LOCK_global_system_variables in a newly created thread, which creation was
> initiated by system variable update.
> 
> At the same time it opens dangerous hole, when system variable update
> thread already released LOCK_global_system_variables and ack_receiver
> thread haven't yet completed new THD construction. In this case THD
> constructor goes completely unprotected.
>
> Since ack_receiver.stop() waits for the thread to go down, we have to
> temporarily release LOCK_global_system_variables so that it doesn't
> deadlock with ack_receiver.run(). Unfortunately it breaks atomicity
> of rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled updates and makes them not serialized.
> 
> LOCK_rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled was introduced to workaround the above.
> TODO: move ack_receiver start/stop into repl_semisync_master
> enable_master/disable_master under LOCK_binlog protection?
> 
> Part of MDEV-14984 - regression in connect performance
> 
Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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