Re: [Lse-tech] Changing the inode structure

[Matthew W. <wi...@de...>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:32:41AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Since samba has to run on many platforms by default it has to sacrifice
> some performance. For SMP locking tdb uses fcntl locks which work on
> most OS's but stress the locking subsystem quite heavily.
> 
> The real solution to your problem is not to rearchitect the locking
> system but to compile samba with the --spinlocks which replace the
> fcntl locks with userspace spinlocks. 

And I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that this would not
benefit from a per-inode spinlock rather than a global spinlock, since
all the locking is on a single file.

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