From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 22 20: 2:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A08D37B422; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8N322p58015; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:32:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:32:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD SMP list Subject: Re: Locking doc.? Message-ID: <20000923123202.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39CC1A63.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39CC1A63.41C67EA6@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:50:11PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 22 September 2000 at 19:50:11 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Do we have a document that descibes in great detail the > locking policy that the SMPng code should follow? > > I've seen several descriptionms as to how it might be done, > but I haven't seen a "Ok we've decided that this is the strategy > we are using" document. I haven't seen one either. On the one hand it might be a little early to come up with a (restrictive) policy document, but I do think we should be discussing more actively how we go about subdividing the locking. There's been plenty of experience in the past to show that it's madness to just go about subdividing locks. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message