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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:18:57 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/sys random.h src/sys/dev/randomdev hash.c hash.h harvest.c randomdev.c yarrow.c yarro
Message-ID:  <20000912161857.B23948@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009120601.e8C611X75116@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:01:00AM %2B0200
References:  <20000911171819.A31089@blitz.canonware.com> <200009120601.e8C611X75116@grimreaper.grondar.za>

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On Tuesday, 12 September 2000 at  8:01:00 +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
>> A general discussion of high level locking strategy is in order, but in my
>> opinion, Mark's code is not an appropriate harbinger, since there's
>> absolutely nothing wrong with the approach he took, regardless of the
>> results of high level discussion.  The issue we need to decide on is how to
>> avoid bad interactions (read deadlock/livelock) between mutex hierarchies,
>> but the randomdev mutex basically stands alone, so isn't subject to those
>> discussions.
>
> I kinda winged it on this one, but I had the assistance of folk online.
> It would be good to have some hardcore documentation.

Indeed.  I'm thinking of doing something, but don't mistake thinking
for promising :-)

Greg
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