on 28/01/2013 16:54 John Baldwin said the following: > On Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:11:24 am Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 24/01/2013 00:52 Marius Strobl said the following: >>> This is due to >>> the fact that on sparc64, spinlock_enter() only raises the PIL but doesn't >>> disable interrupts completely. >> >> John, >> >> I wonder if you are considering pushing your amd64 TPR patch some day... > > I have it in a p4 branch still that is easy to update. I haven't yet been > able to do any testing/benchmarks that show it as beneficial. >
I am thinking about architectural benefits. Like doing inter-processor stuff with less risk of deadlocks. Or "hard CPU stop" without resorting to NMI. Things like that... -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
