From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 11 23:49:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8CE37B43C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 23:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8C6mv124109; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:18:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:18:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Murray Cc: Jason Evans , John Baldwin , FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/sys random.h src/sys/dev/randomdev hash.c hash.h harvest.c randomdev.c yarrow.c yarro Message-ID: <20000912161857.B23948@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000911171819.A31089@blitz.canonware.com> <200009120601.e8C611X75116@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009120601.e8C611X75116@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:01:00AM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 12 September 2000 at 8:01:00 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: >> A general discussion of high level locking strategy is in order, but in my >> opinion, Mark's code is not an appropriate harbinger, since there's >> absolutely nothing wrong with the approach he took, regardless of the >> results of high level discussion. The issue we need to decide on is how to >> avoid bad interactions (read deadlock/livelock) between mutex hierarchies, >> but the randomdev mutex basically stands alone, so isn't subject to those >> discussions. > > I kinda winged it on this one, but I had the assistance of folk online. > It would be good to have some hardcore documentation. Indeed. I'm thinking of doing something, but don't mistake thinking for promising :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message