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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:18:22 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dynamic reads without locking.
Message-ID:  <20031011081822.GA679@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F8795A9.5020409@acm.org>
References:  <20031008083059.GA520@garage.freebsd.pl> <20031008114506.I63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031008101251.GG6524@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3F875172.5010309@acm.org> <3F8795A9.5020409@acm.org>

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:31:21PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On further inspection, I'm pretty sure that sys/kern/subr_devstat.c
> is not correct.

OK. What about the shared page interface? Specifically the comment
above devstat_end_transaction(). The generation count is used by
the old sysctl interface. The shared page interface has a liberal
sprinkling of atomic*() instructions.

BMS



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