1) Check in potential fix to unreproduceable bug in t_cache observed on
Cobalt
2) Check in code supporting added pinned entry features in the metadata
cache.
Description:
1) Elena encountered a bug in t_cache when running on Cobalt. On
investigation I found a potential race condition in t_cache that
could explain her observation.
2) Quincey requested additions to the metadata cache allowing renaming
of pinned entryies, and marking of pinned or protected entries as
dirty.
Solution:
1) Modified t_cache.c to prevent the potential race condition. Elena
was unable to reproduce the bug on Cobalt, so we don't know if my
fix actually addressed the problem.
2) Added code supporting the requested functions. The changes were
relatively trivial, but required substantial new test code.
Platforms tested:
h5committest, serial test on heping, parallel test on phoenix.
Misc. update:
Code cleanup/feature twist
Description:
Adjust recent H5AC routines to take H5F_t pointers instead of H5C_t
pointers, to match the rest of the H5AC routines.
This change propagated into a few of the tests, which also had some
compiler warnings cleaned up...
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) w/parallel
Linux 2.4/64 (mir) w/C++ & FORTRAN
Add pinned entry capability to cache.
Description:
For frequently accessed cache entries, the protect/unprotect overhead
is sometimes a bottleneck.
Solution:
Allow entries to be pinned in the cache. Pinned entries can't be
evicted, but can be flushed or modified.
Platforms tested:
h5committested -- minus one small typo in test/cache.c whose fix was
tested on copper and heping only.
Misc. update:
Add files that I forgot in my last checkin.
Description:
cache_api.c cache_common.c cache_common.h are new files that result
from breaking the old cache test into two tests.
Solution:
See above.
Platforms tested:
h5committested before the last checkin. Will run another
h5committest shortly, but it shouldn't be necessary as there
are no new changes.
Misc. update:
