[OpenAFS-devel] RX thread quota & scaling

Steve Simmons scs@umich.edu
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:40:31 -0500


On Jan 23, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:

> My question is: does anybody care for the "sophisticated" solution?  
> As far as I can see, "servers" normally use one rx service for  
> stats and the other for normal serving, similar for voting and  
> serving in the ubik case. The only slightly more elaborate one is  
> the kaserver. All those probably run fine with a single thread pool  
> and first-come-first-serve.
>
> Any opinions?

Opinions I got. Yes, we care. As multicore processors and servers get  
bigger and bigger, such issues will become more important.