viced: disable hot threads
authorMichael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:24:16 +0000 (09:24 +0100)
committerD Brashear <shadow@your-file-system.com>
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:19:51 +0000 (02:19 -0700)
commit70f825bcd2de3eab9d0c62079318a215f8728cd6
tree10fe94ce2e8fb9fa1f64221093c9c1226f08c93d
parentda549eea21941681c075796512a27a830259c835
viced: disable hot threads

Turn off the rx hot threads feature in the file server.  This feature
was an old optimization intended to reduce context switching, however
generally makes performance worse on modern hardware.

Performance improvements from disabling hot threads was identified by
Simon Wilkinson (YFS) at the European AFS and Kerberos Conference (EAKC)
2014 at CERN.

Change-Id: Id3053a61ebdb2d49d2bf36ebe07a35cc07b5d65c
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/10957
Tested-by: BuildBot <buildbot@rampaginggeek.com>
Reviewed-by: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Reviewed-by: D Brashear <shadow@your-file-system.com>
src/viced/viced.c