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Quota domain locks synchronize access to quota domain records in the QDB.
The main challenge for quota domain locks is that the need to lock quota domains exclusively is not known until the accounting is fully determined. It might not be until responses from transaction deltas are received before this requirement is reported to the initiator. To address this challenge, quota domain locks use optimistic restarts.