Re: [PATCH 4/5] ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variables

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:35:48PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> Instead, work directly with update->flags. This has the advantage that
> the REF_DELETING bit, set in the first loop, can be read in the third
> loop instead of having to compute the same expression again. Plus, it
> was kindof confusing having both update->flags and flags, which
> sometimes had different values.

Hmm. I think this is losing the distinction of "flags the caller has
passed in to us" versus "flags we are using locally only during the
transaction_commit routine". If callers look at the flags in the
REF_TRANSACTION_CLOSED state, do they care about seeing these new flags?

My guess is probably not in practice, and "leaking" these flags is an
acceptable tradeoff for keeping the transaction_commit function simpler.
But I haven't looked that closely.

-Peff
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