Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:25:02 -0500 From: "Bosko Milekic" <bmilekic@technokratis.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Boris Popov" <bp@butya.kz> Cc: <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vnode interlock API Message-ID: <002e01c0915d$326a7ec0$1f90c918@jehovah> References: <200102072126.OAA24284@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
[...]
> 3) It seems to mee that the additional parameter of MTX_DEF is
> gratuitous, and tries to stretch mutex semantics further
> than they should be stretched. I personally would have no
> problem with the conversion of simple_{un}lock() into the
> equivalent mtx_*() calls. Even if the MTX_DEF can not be
> murdered without a large public outcry, using this as the
Actually, it has been murdered:
http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/code/mutex_cleanup-7.1.diff
Presently under testing.
> the default demantic for the simple_*() equivalents isn't
> really a bad idea, in my book, and could be done with
> inline wrappers. Best case, one could apply the WITNESS
> code to debugging 4.x problems, with some work.
[...]
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
Regards,
Bosko.
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