From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 28 17:33:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E3C37B41B for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30614 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 01:33:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([65.91.152.157]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Mar 2002 01:33:39 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g211XLG42454; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:33:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020228191531.00da5868@imatowns.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:33:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Glenn Gombert Subject: Re: SMPng Design (Well, some of it anyways) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Mar-02 Glenn Gombert wrote: > > I would offer just a 'general observation' that there seems to be more > kernel locks/locking structures/mutexes that are required for basic use. If > some sort of simplification to make the code easier to work on and maintain > if fewer locking structures were used and the ground rules for when and > where they were applied we defined in your document. Yes this might require > some 'rework' of locks in general on the front end, but I think it might > make the code that is in -current easier to maintain and enhance in the > future (and certainly easier for new comers to work on as well) .. How do you mean exactly? More locks in that we now have more primitives than before or more locks in that we have more actual locks than before? > Glenn Gombert > ggombert@imatowns.com -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message