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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>I think that the goal should be to make KLDs work with all kinds of
>kernels.  And the only place where this seems to be a problem is with
>zalloc and zfree.  So it seems to me that one of the following could
>be done to solve it:
>
>a. make zalloc and zfree non-inline
>b. call zalloci and zfreei in code that can end up in KLDs
>c. call zalloci and zfreei everywhere where it's not performance-critical

There are many potential problems with SMP kernels.  Many of the inline
functions in <machine/cpufunc.h> depend on SMP.  We've already pessimised
the usual (non-SMP) case by uninlining a few too many spl-related
functions.

Bruce


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