freebsd-skq/usr.bin/lockf
Christian S.J. Peron 6a53f0a52b Revision 1.12 of lockf.c fixed a "thundering herd" scenario when the
lock experienced contention a number of processes would race to acquire
lock when it was released.  This problem resulted in a lot of CPU
load as well as locks being picked up out of order.

Unfortunately, a regression snuck in which allowed multiple threads
to pickup the same lock when -k was not used.  This could occur when
multiple processes open a file descriptor to inode X (one process
will be blocked) and the file is unlinked on unlock (thereby removing
the directory entry allow another process to create a new directory
entry for the same file name and lock it).

This changes restores the old algorithm of: wait for the lock, then
acquire lock when we want to unlink the file on exit (specifically
when -k is not used) and keeps the new algorithm for when -k is used,
which yields fairness and improved performance.

Also, update the man page to inform users that if lockf(1) is being
used to facilitate concurrency between a number of processes, it
is recommended that -k be used to reduce CPU load and yeld
fairness with regard to lock ordering.

Collaborated with:	jdp
PR:		bin/114341
PR:		bin/116543
PR:		bin/111101
MFC after:	1 week
2007-10-12 14:56:52 +00:00
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lockf.1
lockf.c
Makefile