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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 03:33:58 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c src/sys/sys bio.h
Message-ID:  <20020914032217.V10972-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209131128.g8DBSY14039266@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> phk         2002/09/13 04:28:34 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             vfs_bio.c
>     sys/sys              bio.h
>   Log:
>   Oops, broke the build there.  Uninline biodone() now that it is non-trivial.
>
>   Introduce biowait() function.  Currently there is a race condition and the
>   mitigation is a timeout/retry.  It is not obvious what kind of locking (if any)
>   is suitable for BIO_DONE, since the majority of users take are of this
>   themselves, and only a few places actually rely on the wakeup.
>
>   Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.

Isn't the "correct" locking just splbio() in RELENG_4 (if this function were
merged, haha) and Giant in -current.  bufwait() just uses splbio()
unconditionally.  Of course, Giant is not really correct.

Bruce


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