Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:47:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Race condition with M_EXT ref count? Message-ID: <3CFBF1FD.4DF1AED6@mindspring.com> References: <200206031913.g53JD7547163@arch20m.dellroad.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206031225070.43219-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020603203343.GM64510@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [020603 12:41] wrote: > > this is YET ANOTHER case for the Atomic reference counting ABI that > > jhb has been talking about... > > I was the initial person to request an atomic_t API. I think the request count was non-atomically incremented by a lot of people, around the same time. If we had only had one at the time, we could assign the credit for the request to have one, properly... 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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