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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:15:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha interrupt.c machdep.c mp_mac 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101111215210.29666-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101112012.f0BKC5s37267@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >> I prefer "curproc" to PCPU_GET(curproc).  Curproc already tells me
> >> that this variable must be per-cpu.
> >
> >How?
> 
> Uhh.  Because a current process spanning all CPUs makes no sense.

Multiple threads?


> 
> >And does witness_spin_check tell you this, or astpending?  astpending
> >wasn't even per-CPU before the first SMPng commit.  How about common_tss?
> 
> If I had reason to muck with those variables, I would have to already
> know.  I don't believe that the constant reminder that something
> is per-cpu is required to write working code.  Our developers are
> smarter than that.
> 
> --
> Justin
> 



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