Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

enami tsugutomo <tsugutomo.enami%jp.sony.com@localhost> wrote:
> > cvs rdiff -u -r1.11 -r1.12 src/sys/kern/subr_xcall.c
> 
> Why XC_PRI_BIT is not placed at LSB instead MSB?

Because you would lose the value (note, it is not a pointer).

> Is cpu state change (from offline to online or vise versa) cared?
> 

No, but we do not have the means yet, plus code in various places is
already racy.  We ought to fix it, however RW-lock for such global state
is not suitable - passive serialization or read-mostly lock would do.

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Mindaugas