From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 20:26:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9201065675; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:26:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F3C8FC0C; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:26:56 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAPWdrE2DaFvO/2dsb2JhbACET6FjiG+rI5B1gSmDTnoEjgA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,234,1301889600"; d="scan'208";a="118739118" Received: from erie.cs.uoguelph.ca (HELO zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca) ([131.104.91.206]) by esa-jnhn-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 18 Apr 2011 16:26:56 -0400 Received: from zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F807B3F56; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:26:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <1179635042.237706.1303158416180.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <857645844.237335.1303158157618.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [172.17.91.202] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.10_GA_2692 (ZimbraWebClient - IE7 (Win)/6.0.10_GA_2692) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP question w.r.t. reading kernel variables X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:26:57 -0000 > > > All of this makes sense. What I was concerned about was memory cache > consistency and whet (if anything) has to be done to make sure a Oops, "whet" should have been "what"..