From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 10 18: 5:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3305D37B401; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:05:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9568143E6E; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gAB24xZ63148; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:04:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Alan L. Cox" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin Subject: Re: on the same note.. In-Reply-To: <3DCEB79A.69EB752D@imimic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Err, well, this *is* in vm object allocation... > > Ah, I see what you're talking about now. Until the vm object has been > returned by the allocation routine it is not shared data. The > generation count is used to detect changes in the list of resident pages > by sleeping processes, not to detect that the same storage is being > recycled for a new object. > Well, if this is the case, the allocator shouldn't be just incrementing it, should it? Shouldn't it always start at zero? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message