From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 22:33:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9419A37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22B0D43F85 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@myrealbox.com) Received: from adsl-67-114-252-218.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO myrealbox.com) (wsheets@67.114.252.218 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2003 05:33:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3F2212BB.4090009@myrealbox.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:33:47 -0700 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030723 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm uma_core.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 05:33:10 -0000 Alan Cox wrote: > alc 2003/07/25 20:55:32 PDT > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/vm uma_core.c > Log: > Gulp ... call kmem_malloc() without Giant. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.62 +1 -7 src/sys/vm/uma_core.c Could this be considered roughly similar to selecting the 'interruptable' kernel configuration in linux? Second dumb question: is this of importance only for SMP machines, or does it affect uni-processors also? I'm sure you can tell from the questions that I'm not a kernel hacker, so use small words :o)