From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 19 0:46: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (fw2.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA72137B698; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0J8jfl82883; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:45:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, rjesup@wgate.com, Soren Schmidt Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:41:12 PST." Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:45:41 +0100 Message-ID: <82881.979893941@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , John Baldwin writes: >> >> How many disks are active when you build world on that box ? > >Just one. [...] >Details like this would be helpful though. They have never been secret, and I voiced this issue early on. > However, after >thinking some more, even in a preemptive kernel, Giant will protect against the >*strategy() race you brought up, [...] Could be. Many disks are still a defining difference on sos's machine and practically everybody any other machine. -- 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 freebsd-arch" in the body of the message