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Subject: Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :It's too messy and unfinished (doesn't work right for SMP or irqs >= 16),
> :and dificult to untangle from my other patches.  I posted these partial
> :ones to attempt to inhibit() recomplication of the current critical*
> :functions in directions that I don't want to go :-).
>
>     Oh, ok.  Hmm.  Well, do you mind if I throw together an interrupt-set-cli-
>     in-return-frame patch set?  I think it would wind up being just as fast.

I don't see how that would work.  We need to call critical_enter() from
ordinary code, so there is no free frame pop.

Bruce


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