Re: (ITS#5370) race condition in slap_op_time()

[hyc@symas.com]

hyc@symas.com wrote:
> h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

>> However as far as I can tell, only the accesslog overlay uses
>> op->o_tincr, the value which needs the mutex.  And accesslog
>> calls slap_op_time() itself when it needs that value.
>> So maybe we should remove the op->o_tincr field.  Other calls
>> to slap_op_time() can be replaced with slap_get_time().
>
> Sounds like a good idea. It was somewhat redundant with the CSN counter
> (except that this was for all operations, and CSN was only for write
> operations) and it never became generally useful. (Shifted to microsecond
> timestamps in 2.4, because tincr isn't useful across multiple servers.) I
> guess it makes more sense to make it specific to accesslog.
>
Except that this will take a lot more restructuring in accesslog. Going with 
the quick fix for now.

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