Re: more locks..
Jason R Thorpe <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp |
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| Organization | Wasabi Systems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:44:28PM +0100, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> I've looked into making several kernel modules MP-safer. Attached is
> a set of diffs for the buffer cache (mostly vfs_bio.c) for your
> inspection. With this patch, my 2-cpu machine can run the buffer cache
> code concurrently, although I didn't push it very hard (just ffs & lfs
> on a scsi disk).
This is cool, especially since we have to make the bottom-half MP-safe
before we can really attack the top-half.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <[email protected]>