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To: Peter Wemm <peter@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Apr 1997 04:42:13 MST."
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:45:33 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> peter       97/04/07 04:42:13
> 
>   Modified:    sys/i386/i386  exception.s
>   Log:
>   Lower the spl() of the new process from splhigh() right away, since
>   nothing else will lower it until either much later, or never(?) for
>   kernel processes.
>   
>   This basically re-fixes what Bruce fixed in rev 1.29 of kern_fork.c,
>   which was broken again now the child does not execute back up the fork()
>   calling tree.

BTW, I'm not 100% sure about this, I'm waiting for confirmation from Bruce,
but this machine runs a heck of a lot better with it.  (The regular
"calcru: negative time" messages seem to have stopped).  There may be some
followup commits.

Cheers,
-Peter