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Use something better than the GlobalLock to protect storage engine access

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    • Storage Execution

      The GlobalLock is supposed to synchronize operations from accessing the storage engine during shutdown and rollback, as those are the only places where a Global X lock is taken.

      Unfortunately, this is not enforced, respected, or sufficient in all code paths. These bugs were all caused by operations accessing the storage engine without a lock:

      In these cases, we were holding onto storage engine resources in an uninterruptible state without a lock:

      In addition to those problems, the lock is a bit heavy-handed for a very infrequent event.

      Ideally, we would do the following:

      • On shutdown and rollback, kill all operations
      • Allow operations to run to completion as long as they are interruptible
      • Operations that can block for indefinite periods of time must do so in an interruptible state
      • Operations can always safely perform some non-blocking rollback after being killed

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            Reporter:
            louis.williams@mongodb.com Louis Williams
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