The use case is that I have access control lists on my SAN that I
dynamically update as a given volume is attached to or detached from a VM
in a cluster.
Let's say multiple "attach" commands come in for VMs in the same cluster (I
use one ACL per compute cluster). This leads to the storage framework
calling grantAccess on my plug-in from different threads at the same time
(which leads to the plug-in "losing" one of the volumes that is supposed to
be in the ACL).
If I use only one management server and protect grantAccess with a
synchronized block, the problem goes away (the ACL is always correct).
I was looking to extend this synchronization across grantAccess calls that
are running in multiple management servers at the same time.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Yes, it should do it for you. Please check for the references of this
> method and ensure there are other logic pieces using this.
> It might help if you can you give some context of of your use case ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Nitin
>
> On 13/01/15 4:12 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have code in my plug-in that I'd like to make sure doesn't run in
> >multiple threads at the same time.
> >
> >Of course if there were only the possibility of one management server ever
> >running at a time, then I could just use synchronized.
> >
> >What is the recommended CloudStack approach?
> >
> >I see code like this in places (in a try block):
> >
> > GlobalLock lock =
> >GlobalLock.getInternLock(templateIdPoolIdString);
> >
> > if (!lock.lock(5)) {
> >
> > s_logger.debug("Couldn't lock the db on the string " +
> >templateIdPoolIdString);
> >
> > return null;
> >
> > }
> >
> >Then the finally block has this:
> >
> >lock.unlock();
> >
> >lock.releaseRef();
> >Does this achieve what I'm looking for?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >--
> >*Mike Tutkowski*
> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
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>
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