We've long been able to use these and they have a couple
great benefits:
1. Forces you to always access them atomically. With the pointer
variants it's completely valid to access the regular ol' int64/uint32
etc. without using the atomic.* methods. These wrappers don't provide
access to the underlying value so it forces correct usage always.
2. Conveys intent much better. Seeing the type be atomic.Int32 immediately
lets the reader know that this var will be used in a concurrent context,
and we no longer need comments like "this MUST be accessed atomically"
or similar.
Signed-off-by: Danny Canter <danny@dcantah.dev>
Other similar events were already moved to the metadata store. The
metadata store has more information that can be used for a future
content created event.
Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcg.dev>
The boltdb instance in metadata is only used for getting transactions
and can also be overriden via the context to have a wider control of the
transaction boundary. Using the transactor interface allows callers of
metadata to have more control of the transaction lifecycle.
Since boltdb must be fsync'ed on commit, operations which perform many
database operations can be costly and slow. While providing transactor
via context can be used to group together operations, it does not
provide a way to manage the commit fsyncs more globally.
Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <derek@mcg.dev>
Philip Laine