Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:42:36 -0700 From: Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 11120 for review Message-ID: <20020519154236.I25907@stylus.haikugeek.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205190135590.64991-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:38:08AM -0700 References: <20020519000301.K49505-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205190135590.64991-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer [julian@elischer.org] wrote : > > > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jonathan Mini wrote: > > > > > Jeff Roberson [jroberson@chesapeake.net] wrote : > > > > > > > The fini call happens w/o the zone lock being held. > > > > > > In that case, we haven't any problems with the fini call, except that it > > > might be called from the page daemon. Is that a problem? > > > > > In all likelyhood it will *only* be called from the page daemon. > > > > Are you saying that discarding excess items occurs 'offline' > and is done by the paging daemon? > i.e. the dissassociation of the thread and its stack > doesn't happen in teh calling coext of the uma_zfree(). (?) > (no source here) > That's correct. The thread and its stack aren't actually deallocated until UMA frees the slab that the thread is on. UMA does this on a high/low water system, and will also allocate new slabs before all available threads are allocated. -- Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org> http://www.haikugeek.com "He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge." -- Richard Whatley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-projects" in the body of the message
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