From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Sep 27 0:43: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BE437B43F; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA13542; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:43:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores In-Reply-To: <200009270722.e8R7MkA03362@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Actually, it's been about a year, plus about four and a half of hot air. > I see and hear a lot of talk. Who's doing the real work? Do we see > Peter, John or Tor, for example, in this windage competition. 8) > > Come on folks. Stick to the topic. > The point that was brought up a little while ago is more germaine to the discussion: Is there any documentation regarding the interaction between "lock manager" and the mutexes? There appears now to be several different sets of locking code in the kernel and I'm getting thoroughly confused in my efforts to try 'catch up' with what's going on in the SMP world.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message