Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:45:41 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, rjesup@wgate.com, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent Message-ID: <82881.979893941@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:41:12 PST." <XFMail.010119004112.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.010119004112.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: >> >> How many disks are active when you build world on that box ? > >Just one. [...] >Details like this would be helpful though. They have never been secret, and I voiced this issue early on. > However, after >thinking some more, even in a preemptive kernel, Giant will protect against the >*strategy() race you brought up, [...] Could be. Many disks are still a defining difference on sos's machine and practically everybody any other machine. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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