From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 15:43:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D825737B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:43:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEF043F18 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0LNhGnN075903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:43:17 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <072501c2c1a6$df798450$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: "Marcel Moolenaar" , "M. Warner Losh" Cc: References: <20030121.144243.52206100.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030121224024.GA1095@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Alfre's malloc changes: the next step Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:43:16 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:42:43PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In IRC there's much concern over alfred's changes from a cross os > > portability standpoint, as well as a SMP standpoint. I'd like to > > propose that we do something like the following: > [snip] > > 4) We back out the bulk of the changes made, except where they were > > real bugs. > [snip] > > > > Comments? > > I tend to prefer a backout as the first step if we like to clean > up the M_*WAIT* stuff in a different way. Not reverting first > may result in bugs that we're introduced by the first makeover, > and then subsequently hidden by the second makeover. I don't > say there are any bugs, just that in the case of there being > bugs this could happen. I prefer this too. This commit should never have been done w/o review. OTOH I understand what an incredible PITA it is to back out this muck and your patch will probably have to be done. Sigh. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message