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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:36:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Timeout and SMP race
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207040135220.6975-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <001101c222fa$9b32eed0$ef01a8c0@davidwnt>

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, David Xu wrote:

> while we are getting rid of Giant,  current race condition between softclock()
> and callout_stop() is unacceptable. the race causes two many places in source
> code would be modified to fit this new behaviour,  besides this, everywhere 
> callout_stop() is used need to hold sched_lock and do a mi_switch() and
> modify td_flags is also unacceptable, this SMP race should be resolved in 
> kern_timeout.c.  
> 
> David Xu

This is probably true..
the current hacks for this are rather horrible. I think there msut be
better ways. Your suggestion sounds plausible.



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