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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:36:39 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Randall Stewart <rrs@netflix.com>
Cc:        Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280785 - in head/sys: kern netgraph/atm/sscop netgraph/atm/uni sys
Message-ID:  <3203943.oAr2O9rG4a@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <A9C1225A-C1A1-49BD-977D-572F4C145F51@netflix.com>
References:  <201503281250.t2SCoOkt020297@svn.freebsd.org> <3218826.nq4nR2EqCz@ralph.baldwin.cx> <A9C1225A-C1A1-49BD-977D-572F4C145F51@netflix.com>

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On Monday, March 30, 2015 04:21:03 PM Randall Stewart wrote:
> John:
> 
> As I just said, Warner and I feel we can get by with making the int -> short/short so
> we preserver the KPI and at the same time achieve the objective ..
> 
> My big concern was no intel platforms but Warner gave me a green light there ;-)

Technically this still breaks the KBI (in that existing drivers using
callout_pending(), callout_active(), and callout_deactivate() will not
do the correct thing).  OTOH, you can't preserve that and still fix the
race (well, unless you do locking in callout_deactivate() which you
might consider for an MFC even if you didn't do it in HEAD if the KBI
breakage is severe enough).

-- 
John Baldwin



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