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| author | etobi <git@e-tobi.net> | 2011-10-05 02:07:17 +0200 |
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| committer | etobi <git@e-tobi.net> | 2011-10-09 19:15:53 +0200 |
| commit | fbd5b7c271afaa0a1cb8fbc3793dd7a55eca24dc (patch) | |
| tree | 0cd4bfae9c2099ea238a9d109aaadc2afd073e3e /DEVELOPERNOTES | |
| parent | 0a40e921a330ca63e453089e56df392f4140a6c5 (diff) | |
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Disable multithreading in Fuse
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diff --git a/DEVELOPERNOTES b/DEVELOPERNOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b990dd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/DEVELOPERNOTES @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Fuse might call read(...) on the file class from multiple threads, causing +a race condition with the underlying seek/read operations. + +Using locking here seems to make the file access slower, than just disabling +the multithreading in Fuse with fs.multithreading = False. + +A thread-local storage doesn't help either, because Fuse doesn't seem to +reuse threads, but might create new threads for each read operation. |