From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 12 11:20:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E3237B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD47043E6D for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020712182009.ZSFB29588.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:20:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA52972; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:09:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:09:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Bosko Milekic , Jon Mini , Alfred Perlstein , Archie Cobbs , Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf external buffer reference counters In-Reply-To: <20020712122811.GA52803@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-07-12 07:45 +0000, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > > So I guess that what we're dealing with isn't really a > > "monodirectional" ring. Right? > > No it isn't. It looks more like the "dining philosophers" problem. > But that problem's solution would require at least one mutex for every > part of the ring :-( Te stuff under consideration originally came from OSF/1 which became true-64 that was heavily SMP can anyone find out what they did? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message