From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 15:53:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DD837B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4942E43F18 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0LNr91e087834; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:53:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:51:25 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030121.165125.29485504.imp@bsdimp.com> To: sam@errno.com Cc: bright@mu.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alfre's malloc changes: the next step From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <072d01c2c1a7$0fbba490$52557f42@errno.com> References: <20030121.144243.52206100.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030121233932.GI42333@elvis.mu.org> <072d01c2c1a7$0fbba490$52557f42@errno.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <072d01c2c1a7$0fbba490$52557f42@errno.com> "Sam Leffler" writes: : > Yes. Leave it alone, people may be shocked, but it's the right thing. : : You cannot commit stuff like this w/o calling for a review. Based on the feedback I've gotten so far, it looks like there's widespread support for the backout + direction change. The reason there's support is that it has been thought out and is bulletproof, not a one-off hack. We've got to start using interfaces that are more robust if we are to get the smp/kse work done. While your changes are well intentioned, they take us away from a robust interface to a hackish one that is sufficeint, but unverifiable. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message