[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 12 Dec 2002, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:

> "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.

clients still have relatively coarse locks