Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:31:50 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: networking code and splx() Message-ID: <20070320073150.GA19859@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <45FF0B49.9060008@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070319203709.1272a470@debian> <45FF0B49.9060008@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:14:33PM +0000, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Ignacio Rey wrote: > >... > >The question is: Have calls to these functions been wrapped? or are they > >simply not used in this context? > > > splx() and friends have been no-ops since FreeBSD 5.x was branched. > Synchronization is now done using other mechanisms such as mutexes and > spin locks. See the new man page locking(9) in -CURRENT. It does not seem to get installed: Doing a grep for locking in /usr/src/share/man/man9/Makefile produce nothing. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070320073150.GA19859>