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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 23:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020528235018.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200205290337.g4T3bNDc010112@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On 29-May-2002 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:05:06 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said:
> 
>> Define "an appropriate constructor" that can somehow make up for broken
>> code on another process that is knowingly accessing stale pointers.
> 
> An appropriate constructor is one which doesn't blow away the version
> number, which allows us to detect when the object has been recycled.
> Please go back and read up on non-blocking synchronization before
> continuing this thread.

This ignores the fact that you can be reading stale values anyway without a
lock of some sort on modern architectures.  This also makes the assumption
that a chunk of memory is once-a-socket always-a-socket which doesn't let UMA
properly adjust to spikes in system load by shuffling memory resources around
to subsystems that need it most from other subsystems that don't.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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