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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:41:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious bug in vm_page.h in current
Message-ID:  <199808251441.KAA02038@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808251006570.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
References:  <199808250840.DAA00444@dyson.iquest.net> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808251006570.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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<<On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:11:36 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

>> PAGE_BWAKEUP would decr busy, and wakeup if PG_WANTED
>> and busy == 0.
>> 
>> PAGE_WAKEUP would clear PG_BUSY, and wakeup if PG_WANTED.
>> 
>> Each of the above would ignore the other condition.  There will
>> be extra wakeups, but those won't significantly affect performance.

> I don't understand this part of the code of the code very well.  It
> doesn't seem to me that a few extra wakeups is a problem.  Not waking up
> at all is a problem...

This sounds very much like it could be related to the lockup Matt
Dillon and I have been seeing.  I just rebooted newsswitch with this
change in it; I should know by the end of the day whether it had
any effect.

-GAWollman

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