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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:26:00 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpvar.h
Message-ID:  <16046.64504.186129.388342@emerger.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030429165916.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <16046.55840.945040.149302@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.20030429165916.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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> A mutex is far more expensive than an spl.

Huh?  If so, then something is *really* screwed up, since SPL's block
out lots of things, while mutex's can/should block little things.

That's how we get greater parrallelism.


Nate



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