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Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database libraryMVCC
MVCC stands for Multi Versioning Concurrency Control. This is how you can have both readers & writer at the same time and not have to arrange locks for the two. With LMDB, MVCC is implemented by always creating a new page, never modifying them in place. That also means that when we “free” a page, we need to make sure not to actually use it until all the transactions that could see it has completed.
To be honest, I can’t follow the code. It is somewhat related to me_pghead , but I just can’t follow what is going on. I think that this is related to the way it manage multiple transactions, but I am just unable to follow the code .Maybe it is just that I overloaded my senses with too much C code, I have been diving into this code, and sometimes it feels like this:
That said, I understand how it has to work, so that should be enough for now. Next, I want to see how to do it myself 
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More posts in "Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library" series:
- (08 Aug 2013) MVCC
- (07 Aug 2013) What about free pages?
- (06 Aug 2013) Transactions & commits
- (05 Aug 2013) A thoughtful hiatus
- (02 Aug 2013) On page splits and other painful things
- (30 Jul 2013) On disk data
- (25 Jul 2013) Stepping through make everything easier
- (24 Jul 2013) going deeper
- (15 Jul 2013) Because, damn it!
- (12 Jul 2013) tries++
- (09 Jul 2013) Partial
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