From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Dec 8 15:15:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 15:15:28 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95CD37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:15:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 79EC26AB6B; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:45:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:45:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Evans Cc: FreeBSD SMP list Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys ipl.h Message-ID: <20001209094521.D53111@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200012081039.eB8Ad2214309@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001209091057.H37171@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001208150240.S2312@canonware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001208150240.S2312@canonware.com>; from jasone@canonware.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:02:40PM -0800 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-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 8 December 2000 at 15:02:40 -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 09:10:57AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 8 December 2000 at 2:39:02 -0800, Jake Burkholder wrote: >>> jake 2000/12/08 02:39:02 PST >>> >>> Modified files: >>> sys/sys ipl.h >>> Log: >>> Remove unused declarations for spending and sdelayed, and remove unused >>> #defines for bits corresponding to pending interrupts. Yay threads! >> >> I'm a bit concerned about the pace of change in this code. We have >> significant problems in the current kernel (for example, I haven't >> been able to complete a make world for a week now, because the system >> goes catatonic). We should be looking for these problems, difficult >> as it may be, not moving on. > > Greg, "this code" is a bunch of unused cpp macros. How are you > concerned that this might further increase instability? It's certainly not increasing the stability. > Just because there are existing known bugs doesn't mean that commits > should unilaterally stop. No, but as far as I can tell nobody's looking for the ones we have. 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-smp" in the body of the message