Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:03:37 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Is MTX_CONTESTED evil? Message-ID: <xzpisgpuqjq.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200403261413.i2QEDKHw001781@green.homeunix.org> (Brian F. Feldman's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:13:20 -0500") References: <200403261413.i2QEDKHw001781@green.homeunix.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes: > des@des.no (Dag-Erling =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=3DF8rgrav?=3D) wrote: > > Making ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES default will not catch more bugs, it will just > > piss off users. > What in the world you are talking about? I didn't know that a large clas= s=20 > of bugs existed on SMP, turned on ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES, and found those bugs. > QED. ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES currently makes the system unusable. If we turn it on by default, people will simply stop using FreeBSD (or at least stop upgrading). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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