Re: [head tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sun4v

John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> What I mean there is that there is a simple refcount_*() API wrapper in
> sys/refcount.h that uses atomic ops on ints to safely manage reference
> counts, and I would prefer the code to use refcount_*() instead of
> atomic_*() directly if it fits as atomics can be tricky to manage
> sometimes.
> 

I need to think on this a bit.. the code is common
to several platforms.. and this will take a bit of
fore-thought to make sure we get it right if we move
to something else besides the atomic_xxxx ops.

There are also some where we do similar things to what
the mbuf cluster freeing does with atomic_cmpset... etc.
Simple refcnt's won't help there.. there are others that
are not so... let me look through the macro's and see
what I can come up with :-)

R

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