[OpenAFS-devel] cannot shutdown 1.3.81 on linux 2.6.12-rc[12]

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0504201116450.26028@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Der
> rick J Brashear writes:
>>> i would suggest that the mutexes in afs not be conditional at all.
>>> it seems like there is little benefit to not having them.
>>
>> Overhead?
>
> the overhead of the afs global mutex is going to be pretty small.
> other platforms don't bother with optimizing it away for the
> uniprocessor case and i dont see complaints about performance
> issues related to afs glock.

Well, I guess overhead is the "little benefit". Probably should just be 
done.