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Date:      Thu, 01 May 2003 17:23:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_exit.c kern_fork.c kern_proc.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030501172307.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200305012116.h41LGckx092142@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 01-May-2003 John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb         2003/05/01 14:16:38 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_exit.c kern_fork.c kern_proc.c 
>   Log:
>   Initialize and destroy the struct proc mutex in the proc zone's init and
>   fini routines instead of in fork() and wait().  This has the nice side
>   benefit that the proc lock of any process on the allproc list is always
>   valid and sched_lock doesn't have to be used to test against PRS_NEW
>   anymore.

It also means we don't init and destroy process mutexes as often if
we recycle proc structures.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/



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