Re: old synchronized scan patch

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 19:55 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:46 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
> > If you make the join/leave operations such that there is no resistance
> > at all (no timeout or anything), then it becomes the same as my non-
> > synchronized proposal, right?
> 
> Teamwork requires some synchronisation to be effective, but yeh there
> needs to be a way to leave the Conga if its not working for you/them.
> 
> I think we need the synchronisation to make concurrent scans effective,
> plus Brownian Scans doesnt have the same ring to it :-)

How about "Scan Hinting", or "Smart Scans"?

Although, "smart" might be too strong a word ;)

Regards,Jeff Davis