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<h1>The global lock<a class="headerlink" href="#the-global-lock" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>LLFUSE uses a global lock to synchronize concurrent requests. Since
the GIL already enforces that Python threads do not run concurrently,
this does not result in any additional performance penalties. However,
the use of an explicit lock allows direct control over which Python
thread is running at a given time.</p>
<p>Request handlers will always be called with the global lock acquired.
However, they may release the global lock for potentially time
consuming operations (like network or disk I/O), or to give other
threads a chance to run during longer computations.</p>
<p>Non-request handling threads may acquire the global lock to ensure
that the execution of a particular code block will not be interrupted
by any request handlers.</p>
<p>Obviously, any method that directly or indirectly releases the global
lock must be prepared to be called again while it has released the
lock. In addition, it (and all its callers) must not hold any prior
locks, since this may lead to deadlocks when re-acquiring the global
lock. For this reason it is crucial that every method that directly or
indirectly releases the lock is explicitly marked as such.</p>
<p>The global lock is controlled with the <a class="reference internal" href="#llfuse.lock" title="llfuse.lock"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">lock</span></tt></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#llfuse.lock_released" title="llfuse.lock_released"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">lock_released</span></tt></a>
attributes of the <a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-llfuse" title="llfuse"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">llfuse</span></tt></a> module:</p>
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<tt class="descclassname">llfuse.</tt><tt class="descname">lock_released</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.lock_released" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Controls the global lock. This object can be used as a context
manager for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">with</span></tt> statement to execute a block of code
with the global lock released.</p>
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<tt class="descclassname">llfuse.</tt><tt class="descname">lock</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.lock" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Controls the global lock. This object can be used as a context
manager for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">with</span></tt> statement to execute a block of code
with the global lock acquired.</p>
<p>Note that this object resembles a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">threading.Lock</span></tt> instance but
is an instance of the <a class="reference internal" href="#llfuse.llfuse.Lock" title="llfuse.llfuse.Lock"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">llfuse.Lock</span></tt></a> class which is quite different from
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">threading.Lock</span></tt>.</p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#llfuse.lock" title="llfuse.lock"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">lock</span></tt></a> object has the following methods:</p>
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<dt id="llfuse.llfuse.Lock">
<em class="property">class </em><tt class="descclassname">llfuse.</tt><tt class="descname">Lock</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.llfuse.Lock" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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<dt id="llfuse.llfuse.Lock.Lock.acquire">
<tt class="descclassname">Lock.</tt><tt class="descname">acquire</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.llfuse.Lock.Lock.acquire" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Lock.acquire(self, timeout=None)
Acquire global lock</p>
<blockquote>
<div>If <em>timeout</em> is not None, and the lock could not be acquired
after waiting for <em>timeout</em> seconds, return False. Otherwise
return True.</div></blockquote>
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<tt class="descclassname">Lock.</tt><tt class="descname">release</tt><big>(</big><em>self</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.llfuse.Lock.Lock.release" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Release global lock</p>
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<dt id="llfuse.llfuse.Lock.Lock.yield_">
<tt class="descclassname">Lock.</tt><tt class="descname">yield_</tt><big>(</big><em>self</em>, <em>count=1</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#llfuse.llfuse.Lock.Lock.yield_" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Yield global lock to a different thread</p>
<p>The <em>count</em> argument may be used to yield the lock up to
<em>count</em> times if there are still other threads waiting for the
lock.</p>
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