Subject: Re: locking of the process sibling lists
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/24/2002 08:44:42
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:32:36PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> However there doesn't seem to be any locking of the process
> p_sibling chain, p_pglist nor of some other minor items [1].
>
> Has someone missed these? or is the MP code only partially
> merged?
The MP code is merged, but is not fully fine-grained locking, yet. Our
MP still runs under a Big Lock.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>