Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#67 new enhancement
TMPFS relies on being single-threaded
| Reported by: | Jakub Jermář | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | helenos/fs/tmpfs | Version: | mainline | 
| Keywords: | fs, tmpfs, scalability | Cc: | jakub@… | 
| Blocker for: | Depends on: | ||
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Description
The TMPFS file system server protects global data structures such as the dentries hash table by virtue of running multiple fibrils in only one thread and the fact that the fibrils switch context in a cooperative fashion. This is a possible scalability bottleneck.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
| Cc: | added | 
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comment:2 by , 17 years ago
| Component: | → fs/tmpfs | 
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comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Milestone: | 0.5.0 | 
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