Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:22:24 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c src/sys/nfs nfs_vnops.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808140821300.2114-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199808131835.EAA16497@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > >You are probably right about v_flag needing protection but I have never > >seen problems that I can trace to v_flag. I got hangs due to v_numoutput > >corruption regularly. > > Perhaps because errors don't accumulate. > > Why doesn't NetBSD-alpha have problems with this? I'm assuming they did. I reviewed the NetBSD source code and they also protect v_numoutput with splbio(). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039
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