Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:15:35 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c src/sys/sys bio.h Message-ID: <10588.1032020135@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Sep 2002 03:33:58 %2B1000." <20020914032217.V10972-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20020914032217.V10972-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >Isn't the "correct" locking just splbio() in RELENG_4 (if this function were >merged, haha) and Giant in -current. bufwait() just uses splbio() >unconditionally. Of course, Giant is not really correct. Forget -stable. In -current Giant would currently be a usable default, except that it would likely perform worse than the timeout currently used. Down the road Giant is almost guaranteed to be wrong, and therefore I didn't want to employ at this time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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