Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:38:38 +0000 (GMT) | From | Malcolm Beattie <> |
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Larry McVoy writes: > It's a basic truth that the more scaling you want, the more locks you'll > need. Very, very quickly this will become an unmanagable problem - the > kernel becomes a forest of locks - for example, there were thousands > of locks in the Solaris kernel when I left Sun almost 5 years ago.
As a corroborating data-point, I count about 1400 locks listed in /usr/sys/kern/lockinfo.c for Digital UNIX 4.0D.
--Malcolm
-- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services
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