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Date:      Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:39:59 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thread.c 
Message-ID:  <23463.1111232399@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:16:31 %2B0800." <423C0A0F.6090409@freebsd.org> 

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In message <423C0A0F.6090409@freebsd.org>, David Xu writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>>phk         2005-03-19 08:22:13 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Sleeping is not allowed in uma->fini
>>
>I have not tested if this change will hurt libpthread performance,
>but it is obvious that benifit of uma cache will be reduced by
>this change.

I am aware of that and I don't like it either.

The problem is that the uma_mutex is held over the uma->fini() call
and I'm surprised that we set so tight constraints on these functions
but I did not manage to corner the UMA crew and talk to them about it
yesterday evening.

One obvious solution is to taskq the release of the unit number.

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