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From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: VM Commits / GIANT_ macros
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:38:17AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
>     Hello everyone!  Ok, after talking with John and others at USENIX
>     and a doing a couple of back and forths with Alfred, I am officially
>     taking over the main-line machine-independant VM system in -current.
>=20
>     I will also be working on i386 pmap, vm_object, vm_map, and the buffer
>     cache (in regards to mutexes & Giant).

Could you keep me posted wrt what locking is needed in pmap?  This should
allow me to keep PowerPC in sync.  Don't have any plans to hit SMP on power=
pc
any time soon, but it'd be nice to have the infrastructure in place. =3D)

--=20
Benno Rice
benno@FreeBSD.org

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