From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 3 15:48: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A9837B403; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0111.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.111] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17F0cJ-0004dn-00; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:47:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3CFBF1FD.4DF1AED6@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:47:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Julian Elischer , Archie Cobbs , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Race condition with M_EXT ref count? References: <200206031913.g53JD7547163@arch20m.dellroad.org> <20020603203343.GM64510@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Julian Elischer [020603 12:41] wrote: > > this is YET ANOTHER case for the Atomic reference counting ABI that > > jhb has been talking about... > > I was the initial person to request an atomic_t API. I think the request count was non-atomically incremented by a lot of people, around the same time. If we had only had one at the time, we could assign the credit for the request to have one, properly... 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message