[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Jimmy Engelbrecht]

"Ryan Underwood" <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> writes:

> 6) Better SMP scalability.  I have no basis for comparison, but people tell
> me that the process management mechanism AFS uses does no good for
> multi-processor performance. (locking increases so much as you add CPUs that
> the performance gain is vaporized, or something to that effect)

I think most of the complains comes from the times where the fileserver
still had one or a few locks for doing things, now the locks are per
thread.

/Jimmy