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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:47:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_synch.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021001124729.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021002004350.C1540-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On 01-Oct-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> jhb         2002/10/01 07:10:09 PDT
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/kern             kern_synch.c
>>   Log:
>>   - Adjust comment noting that handling of CPU limit exhaustion is done in
>>     ast().
>>   - Actually set KEF_ASTPENDING so ast() is called.  I think this is buggy
>>     for a process with multiple KSE's in that PS_XCPU is not a KSE event,
>>     it's a process-wide event.  IMO there really should probably be two
>>     ASTPENDING flags, one for per-process, and one for per-KSE.
>>
>>   Submitted by:   bde
> 
> I'm not sure who "I" is here :-).  I think setting the flag for only one
> KSE is kludgy but not buggy.  Killing the process from 1 thread is
> sufficient.  If you killed it from several then you want to avoid warning
> and bumping the cpu limit for each kill (the actual kills would coalesce).
> One ASTPENDING flag process may already be one too many, since you have
> to remember to set it together with the flag(s) that tell ast() what to
> do, and having a summary flag like it doesn't significantly simplify the
> test for whether ast() should be called.

The "I" is me, sorry.  I replied to you in a private e-mail that I think
we could abolish the actual ASTPENDING flags and instead define those
constants as a mask of the relevant flags that should be tested against.

> Thanks for committing this and related patches.

Thanks for the good bugfixes. :)

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