Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:11:52 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Richard Wenninger <richard@richardw.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UMA lock Message-ID: <20020529091152.B61073@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3CF475E3.8925781A@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:32:03PM -0700 References: <20020529061540.88CD6380A@overcee.wemm.org> <3CF475E3.8925781A@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:32:03PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Can we get rid of the NULL tests we had to put in when M_WAIT > turned into M_WAITOK? No. What you see as a bad thing others (including me) see as a good thing. I _want_ to be able to say: "okay, try sleeping; but I realize that sleeping for longer than some reasonable time if I'm not getting anything to begin with will probably not get me anything at any point so tell me the allocation really failed and give me the opportunity to clean up before *I* decide what I want to do." > -- Terry > "Never solve a vast problem in a half-vast way" -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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