In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Roland Kuhn writes: >Please forgive my ignorance concerning the openafs source, but which >parts are synchronized by the AFS_GLOCK? I know that I can find the >details with grep, but what is the big picture?
the afs glock synchronizes quite a bit. >How could I find out if it's AFS_GLOCK(), which is reducing >performance? Or, more generally, how can I best test AFS locking? I'm >running Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patch and lightweight usage has >not shown any problems yet (just the shutdown failure when running an >UP kernel). i dont really have any good idea how to test this reliably. building two different source trees inside afs at the same time? i know the realtime/preempt stuff means that syscalls are no longer atomic. afs (without glock) relies on syscalls being atomic (as far as i know). _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
