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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:12:10 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@FreeBSD.ORG>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Subject:   Re: Where to initialize certain locks...
Message-ID:  <3CAB621A.6F84F736@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20020403101153.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> We need mutexes prior to mi_startup().

There are really two problems with this theory:

1)	You can't use them before the mutex system is initialized,
	which happens from mi_startup.

2)	There are no contended resources until after mi_startup
	starts the other CPU(s).

-- Terry

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