Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, David Xu wrote: > > > >>Sam Lawrance wrote: >> >> >> >>>Will this problem: >>> >>>Swapped out procs not brought in immediately after child exits >>>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/78474 >>> >>>be dealt with for the release of 5.4? >>> >>>Perhaps I'm the only FreeBSD user with swapped out processes ;-) >>> >>>-Sam >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I have noticed that current spinlock implementation no longer means that >>CPU must be in critical region (critical_enter is called), even previous >>hack TDP_WAKEPROC0 is no longer correct, :(, I think it is the time to >>disable swapout. >> >> > >I'm sorry, I can't parse your double negative. On -CURRENT critical >sections (entered with critical_enter()) no longer disable interrupts, but >do inhibit preemption. But spinlocks still do critical_enter() (see >spinlock_enter()). > > > I will commit the patch provided in the PR, it should work. I am just worrying TDP_WAKEPROC0 will not work if spinlock does not entering critical region.Received on Sat Apr 23 2005 - 01:37:39 UTC
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