Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > I haven't seen it myself, but it seems like it's only going to happen > > sometimes (when a full page is freed). There's really no technical > > reason you'd ever want to do a free(9) with locks held, so I suggest > > fixing it in the straightforward way. > > While I sympathize with this point, I don't think it's realistic to assert > that free() will never be called while helding a lock. Once the mbuf > allocator backs into regular malloc() and free(); the network stack relies > on being able to perform wait-free allocation and free while locks are > held, since it uses locks as a light-weight form of reference-counting. Well, there's locks, and then there's mutexes; the vnode interlock is a mutex that is really, really not supposed to be slept while holding. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green_at_FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\Received on Fri Apr 30 2004 - 19:12:34 UTC
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