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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2002 23:11:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 11120 for review
Message-ID:  <20020518230944.I49505-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020518124339.F25907@stylus.haikugeek.com>

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On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jonathan Mini wrote:

> John Baldwin [jhb@FreeBSD.org] wrote :
>
> > > On Fri, 17 May 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yes, I think that is the problem.  I think it has to do with setting
> > >> up/tearing down the thread stacks.  If uma could do this w/o holding
> > >> the zone locks that would probably be sufficient.
> > >
> > > The old analogy to this problem was one of the reasons that I used
> > > the thread_reap() command an allowed them to be torn down
> > > at a known safe time..
> >
> > The fini() call out should be a safe time, I think the locking in uma
> > just needs to be adjusted to ensure it is safe.
>
> I think Jeff agrees as well.
>
> Jeff, are you reading this thread?

The fini call happens w/o the zone lock being held.  The init could be
called w/o the zone lock being held as well if this is important.  I
haven't seen this whole thread though.  What is the issue? And what is the
desired behavior?

Thanks,
Jeff


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