Function freeClientAsync

app/redis-6.2.6/src/networking.c:1448–1465

Schedule a client to free it at a safe time in the serverCron() function. * This function is useful when we need to terminate a client but we are in * a context where calling freeClient() is not possible, because the client * should be valid for the continuation of the flow of the program. */

 * a context where calling freeClient() is not possible, because the client
 * should be valid for the continuation of the flow of the program. */
void freeClientAsync(client *c) {
    /* We need to handle concurrent access to the server.clients_to_close list
     * only in the freeClientAsync() function, since it's the only function that
     * may access the list while Redis uses I/O threads. All the other accesses
     * are in the context of the main thread while the other threads are
     * idle. */
    if (c->flags & CLIENT_CLOSE_ASAP || c->flags & CLIENT_LUA) return;
    c->flags |= CLIENT_CLOSE_ASAP;
    if (server.io_threads_num == 1) {
        /* no need to bother with locking if there's just one thread (the main thread) */
        listAddNodeTail(server.clients_to_close,c);
        return;
    }
    static pthread_mutex_t async_free_queue_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
    pthread_mutex_lock(&async_free_queue_mutex);
    listAddNodeTail(server.clients_to_close,c);
    pthread_mutex_unlock(&async_free_queue_mutex);
}

/* Free the clients marked as CLOSE_ASAP, return the number of clients
 * freed. */