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Kernel concurrency rules

All concurrency classes must be placed under utils/concurrency. You will find several helper libraries there. Do not add mutexes without discussion with others. Concurrency and correctness is very hard in the large. Great care is required. For example the concurrency model in replica sets is hard to understand and error prone (at least it was initially and probably still is). If you think there is a real need for an exception to the list below let's have the group weigh in and get a concensus on the exception: Do not use/add recursive locks. Do not use rwlocks. Always acquire locks in a consistent order. In fact, the MutexDebugger can assist with verification of this. MutexDebugger is on for _DEBUG builds and will alert if locks are taken in opposing orders during the run.

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• Added by Dwight Merriman, last edited by Dwight Merriman on Oct 10, 2011  (view change)

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