From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 8 20:26:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03742 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03733 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA07438; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 03:26:18 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id FAA08228; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 05:26:16 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980809052615.37763@follo.net> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 05:26:15 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: John Birrell , Jason Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP and kernel threads (Was: Re: Pthreads woes revisited.) References: <199808072257.IAA11353@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199808072257.IAA11353@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 08:57:58AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 08:57:58AM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Jason Evans wrote: > > 1) Which message from John Dyson are you referring to? I don't recall a > > technically detailed message from him on this subject for 2+ months. > > The message I am referring to was dated Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:12:13 -0500 (EST) > and sent as part of the original thread. I can forward you a copy > if necessary. > > > 2) Where are John Dyson's patches currently available? > > Send email to John. He'll probably refer to http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/ where I stored a copy of his latest distributed patches, though :-) IIRC, the code there (sysjun-07b.diff.gz) should match what John (Dyson) is talking about. These are the patches John was testing just before he left. The other patches there (vput-proc.diff) is to make vput() take a process argument, and thus avoid some race conditions under SMP. These need testing with NFS; I'm waiting on somebody (you know who you are) who promised to do this a long while ago, but have not heard back (even after repeated nagging). If somebody else has a suitable test environment, feel free to yell. The patches have been running on my machine for three months or so with no ill effects. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message