Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> Now, one would suppose that fine-granularity locking is the goal. Many
> commercial operating systems do that, eg. IRIX. It is supposed to give the
> best scalability. However, this has a hit on performance especially on
> systems with just one or two CPUs (like most PCs these days).
>
> Some people (mainly Larry McVoy) have proposed that this shouldn't be
> done. He has proposed another way how scalability should be achieved. But
> since you didn't ask that, I stop my story here.
very interesting. Can you continue from this point?
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