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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Panics on my SMP system
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:On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:> 
:>     How old is your -CURRENT source tree ?    Fixes to the pipe code
:>     have been made, though they are not 100% complete.
:> 
:...
:
:What's happing with regard to your pipe write locking fixes? I still
:apply those to my kernels...
:
: Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  

    I ran into a possible panic with them and haven't had time to get back
    to it (e.g. research the problem), especially without commit privs.

    I expect to revisit them when the SMP locks migrate inward sufficiently
    that the pipe code can be moved out of the big giant lock.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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