Committing a Speculation

Commit speculations by using the commit() function. When you commit a speculative buffer the buffer's data is copied into the principal buffer. If the data in the speculative buffer exceeds the available space in the principal buffer, no data is copied and the drop count for the buffer increments. If the buffer has been speculatively traced on more than one CPU, the speculative data on the committing CPU is copied immediately, while speculative data on other CPUs is copied after the commit().

A speculative buffer that is being committed is not available to subsequent speculation() calls until each per-CPU speculative buffer is completely copied into its corresponding per-CPU principal buffer. Subsequent attempts to write the results of a speculate() function call to the committing buffer discard the data without generating an error. Subsequent calls to commit() or discard() also fail without generating an error. A clause that contains a commit() function cannot contain a data recording action, but a clause can contain multiple commit() calls to commit disjoint buffers.