:Otherwise right now your guess is as good as mine.
:
:As a side note, it seems silly that we do this:
:
:MPLOCKED incl _cnt+V_SYSCALL
:SYSCALL_LOCK
:call_syscall
:
:I think per-cpu statistics would be an interesting optimization,
:since you're testing all of this, have
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000324 21:52] wrote:
> I've been doing more SMP cleanup and for the life of me I can't figure
> out why cpl operations are surrounded by its own [S]CPL_LOCK ??
>
> As far as I can tell, the cpl is only accessed/modified:
>
> * by mainline c
I've been doing more SMP cleanup and for the life of me I can't figure
out why cpl operations are surrounded by its own [S]CPL_LOCK ??
As far as I can tell, the cpl is only accessed/modified:
* by mainline code while the MP lock is held
* by an interrupt while the MP
