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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:40:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c tcp_subr.c tcp_timer.c tcp_var.h
Message-ID:  <20060912123917.U83151@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060912002456.I43498@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <200609061356.k86DuZ0w016069@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060906091204.B6691@odysseus.silby.com> <20060906143204.GQ40020@FreeBSD.org> <20060906093553.L6691@odysseus.silby.com> <20060906150506.GA7069@rambler-co.ru> <20060911005435.A23530@odysseus.silby.com> <20060911142703.GF27667@FreeBSD.org> <20060912001916.S43498@odysseus.silby.com> <20060912002456.I43498@odysseus.silby.com>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> 
>>> The UMA zone can't be made smaller than it is, while IP port ranges can 
>>> vary in both directions.
>> 
>> Hm, it can't be made smaller because we're using UMA_ZONE_NOFREE... why are 
>> we using that?  Shouldn't locking handle that, rwatson? :)
>
> Hm, it's been UMA_ZONE_NOFREE since day one.  The reason may or may not be 
> relevant after all the work rwatson has done with locking.

Unless the monitoring model is changed, this remains 100% necessary, or we may 
find ourselves performing mutex operations on uninitialized mutexes, 
corrupting kernel memory, or exporting other kernel data structures improperly 
to user space.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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