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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:36:02 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: vm_zeropage priority problems.
Message-ID:  <20011220123602.H8230@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011220121603.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20011220112415.B8230@iguana.aciri.org> <XFMail.011220121603.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:16:03PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
...
> Priority propagation will already handle things ok.  We drop to pri_native
> after we drop a lock (although if we still hold a contested lock we bump our
> priority to the min(nativepri, highest priority of threads on contested locks
> we hold and drop to nativepri after dropping the last contested lock). 

ok, thanks for the clarification

> However, kthreads should tsleep() with their current priority, not PPAUSE.

"current" meaning pri_level or pri_native ? What if one tries to
tsleep() while holding a lock and so its pri_level is raised ?

In the device polling code i did a tsleep on the "original" pri_level,
but maybe pri_native is good enough.

	cheers
	luigi

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