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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:16:20 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_mmap.c
Message-ID:  <20020622211620.GA11391@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020622164841.812I-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200206221913.g5MJDuI09547@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020622164841.812I-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:49:12PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > alc         2002/06/22 12:13:56 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/vm               vm_mmap.c 
> >   Log:
> >    o Reduce the scope of Giant in vm_mmap() to just the code that manipulates
> >      a vnode.  (Thus, MAP_ANON and MAP_STACK never acquire Giant.)
> 
> Great work!

Thanks.  There's still the wrapper function where mmap(2) enters the kernel
and calls vm_mmap(), but that too should be rid of Giant this weekend. 

Alan

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