[OpenAFS-devel] locks

[Chaskiel M Grundman]

--On Monday, October 28, 2002 16:18:34 -0500 Nickolai Zeldovich 
<kolya@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> This seems to be just some FreeBSD-specific thing, which lets you
> choose real locks (HEAVY_LOCKS) or fake locks (NULL_LOCKS) which
> assume that you have no concurrency whatsoever
They don't assume. They assert if there is concurrency. I found that 
freebsd 4.x w/o smp seemed to not need locks, but because that's not likely 
to stay true in 5.x, I chose to leave locking turned on. I forget if there 
was a difference between using lockmgr locks and simple locks on freebsd. 
(on darwin there is...)