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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:01:19 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r245850 - in head/sys/sparc64: include sparc64
Message-ID:  <5106CAFF.3050905@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201301280954.51558.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201301232252.r0NMqLxh085107@svn.freebsd.org> <5103ABCC.3010706@FreeBSD.org> <201301280954.51558.jhb@freebsd.org>

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on 28/01/2013 16:54 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:11:24 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 24/01/2013 00:52 Marius Strobl said the following:
>>> This is due to
>>>   the fact that on sparc64, spinlock_enter() only raises the PIL but doesn't
>>>   disable interrupts completely.
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I wonder if you are considering pushing your amd64 TPR patch some day...
> 
> I have it in a p4 branch still that is easy to update.  I haven't yet been
> able to do any testing/benchmarks that show it as beneficial.
> 

I am thinking about architectural benefits.
Like doing inter-processor stuff with less risk of deadlocks.
Or "hard CPU stop" without resorting to NMI.
Things like that...

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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