From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 4 9:59:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5322B37B401; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f64GxSX45091; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200107041659.f64GxSX45091@earth.backplane.com> To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c mem.c trap.c vm_ma References: Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> With Alfred's permission, remove vm_mtx in favor of a fine-grained approach :> (this commit is just the first stage). Also add various GIANT_ macros to :> formalize the removal of Giant, making it easy to test in a more piecemeal :> fashion. These macros will allow us to test fine-grained locks to a degree :> before removing Giant, and also after, and to remove Giant in a piecemeal :> fashion via sysctl's on those subsystems which the authors believe can :> operate without Giant. : :Argh. /me kicks DNS. Sorry my mail took so long to get sent out, but there are :some minor nits with this. : :-- : :John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ No problem, I have all day to clean it up. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message