Re: Broadening the scope of the negative connection cache

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> simo wrote:
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> >> PS: I do believe that Winbind's idmap cache needs to be cleaned
> >> up.  For example, caching the forward and reverse map entries
> >> should be in a single transaction.
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> > We should also make the cache be readable by any winbindd process too,
> > so that we save some round trips, it was not done in initial design to
> > keep it simpler, but it is time to IMO.
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> That's a different issue.  In general the design should be
> that tha parent winbindd process always hits cache first
> and only calls out to a child process when the cache is
> empty or expired.  This is more in line with the original
> dual-daemon design Tridge implemented.  Which I think
> would work really well with the state machine model we
> have now.
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> So it's not just the idmap cache that needs to be readable,
> but the entire cache manager should be moved to the parent.