Any interest in swat enhancement

[David Collier-Brown]

Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> yes ! I would be able to send printer notify updates to all smbd process
> in one shoot :-)
...
 
> How do you remove from the queue a message that was send to all the
> smbd process ?

	You either duplicate the messages on send, or keep
	a reference count.  

	One of my smarter colleagues looked at a customer
	system which did the reference-counting, and found
	the locks required were a significant bottleneck
	at high message rates. Implementing send-multiple
	the simple was was a cure.

	This is a general case of what we've found when
	re-implementing System V message queues (several
	times!) over the years: getting the locking right
	is the major performance issue. Other probable
	truisms: many small queues make light work, and
	lock-free (non-circular) queue schemes are cool.

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