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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 06:04:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, eivind@yes.no, jlemon@americantv.com, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syncer / SMP question
Message-ID:  <199802280604.XAA20809@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802280513.AAA00289@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Feb 28, 98 00:13:06 am

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> > Interlocks are for very short-term locks and for locking the aquisition
> > of full locks.
> > 
> One rule-of-thumb is never to block (tsleep) when you have an interlock.

This would make a good assert for a kernel compiled with debugging
turned on... 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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