Previously, when the host repeatedly sent `UpdateWorktree` messages,
new guests attempting to join a project would observe a severe slowdown
caused by a database serialization error (e.g., the coherence of the data
would get violated midway through `Database::join_project` due to worktree
entries being mutated as the user joined). Writing entries is pretty fast,
whereas reading all of them for a project can take more than 100ms.
Transactions that failed due to a serialization error are retried, but the guest
would keep retrying until the host finished writing because the guest's read
was slow.
This commit changes the semantics of `room_transaction` to acquire a room
lock before even starting the transaction and holding it all the way after
commit (storing it, as before, in the `RoomGuard`). This ensures that a fast
writer (the host) can't starve a slow reader (the guest), allowing the latter
to make progress by temporarily pausing writes by the former.
Antonio Scandurra
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