| 344 |
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* When these cases arise, rather than always retraversing the |
| 345 |
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* entire list to find an actual predecessor to unlink (which |
| 346 |
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* won't help for case (1) anyway), we record a conservative |
| 347 |
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* estimate of possible unsplice failures (in "sweepVotes"). We |
| 348 |
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* trigger a full sweep when the estimate exceeds a threshold |
| 349 |
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* indicating the maximum number of estimated removal failures to |
| 350 |
< |
* tolerate before sweeping through, unlinking cancelled nodes |
| 351 |
< |
* that were not unlinked upon initial removal. We perform sweeps |
| 352 |
< |
* by the thread hitting threshold (rather than background threads |
| 353 |
< |
* or by spreading work to other threads) because in the main |
| 354 |
< |
* contexts in which removal occurs, the caller is already |
| 355 |
< |
* timed-out, cancelled, or performing a potentially O(n) |
| 356 |
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* operation (i.e., remove(x)), none of which are time-critical |
| 357 |
< |
* enough to warrant the overhead that alternatives would impose |
| 358 |
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* on other threads. |
| 347 |
> |
* estimate of possible unsplice failures (in "sweepVotes"). |
| 348 |
> |
* We trigger a full sweep when the estimate exceeds a threshold |
| 349 |
> |
* ("SWEEP_THRESHOLD") indicating the maximum number of estimated |
| 350 |
> |
* removal failures to tolerate before sweeping through, unlinking |
| 351 |
> |
* cancelled nodes that were not unlinked upon initial removal. |
| 352 |
> |
* We perform sweeps by the thread hitting threshold (rather than |
| 353 |
> |
* background threads or by spreading work to other threads) |
| 354 |
> |
* because in the main contexts in which removal occurs, the |
| 355 |
> |
* caller is already timed-out, cancelled, or performing a |
| 356 |
> |
* potentially O(n) operation (e.g. remove(x)), none of which are |
| 357 |
> |
* time-critical enough to warrant the overhead that alternatives |
| 358 |
> |
* would impose on other threads. |
| 359 |
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* |
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* Because the sweepVotes estimate is conservative, and because |
| 361 |
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* nodes become unlinked "naturally" as they fall off the head of |
