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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: RE: mutexes and modules
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John Baldwin writes:
 > 
 > On 07-Jan-2003 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > 
 > > Are kernel modules pessimized in any way with respect to using
 > > mutexes as compared to statically compiled kernel code?
 > > 
 > > I seem to remember some discussion a year or more ago indicating that
 > > they would be, but I'm not seeing it in the code.
 > 
 > In the non debug case the quick cases are not inlined in modules but
 > are always function calls.  Other than that there isn't much difference.

Thanks John..

Drew

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