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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:45:41 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, rjesup@wgate.com, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent 
Message-ID:  <82881.979893941@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:41:12 PST." <XFMail.010119004112.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.010119004112.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>> 
>> How many disks are active when you build world on that box ?
>
>Just one. [...]
>Details like this would be helpful though.
They have never been secret, and I voiced this issue early on.

> However, after
>thinking some more, even in a preemptive kernel, Giant will protect against the
>*strategy() race you brought up, [...]

Could be.  Many disks are still a defining difference on sos's machine
and practically everybody any other machine.

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