Re: SMP/BGL patch 04

2000-03-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I haven't looked at the patch so I can't comment on it (but it sounds very :promising). : :I have been writing some of the infrastructure for SMP on alpha and as an :experiment I've been using the mutex_t primitive from BSD/OS as an :experiment. This is a nice simple api for a counting mutex whic

Re: SMP/BGL patch 04

2000-03-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Patch 04 is ready. > > http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ > http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/smp-patch-04.diff > > Contains lots of cleanup of stale SMP code. There are still a few places > where get_mplock is being called with

SMP/BGL patch 04

2000-03-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Patch 04 is ready. http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/smp-patch-04.diff Contains lots of cleanup of stale SMP code. There are still a few places where get_mplock is being called with interrupts disabled which I haven't found, so I put th