cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c

Coleman Kane cokane at cokane.org
Sat Apr 19 22:59:48 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:53 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Coleman Kane wrote:
> >
> >> cokane      2008-03-13 20:15:49 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_softdep.c
> >>  Log:
> >>  Replace the non-MPSAFE timeout(9) API in ffs_softdep.c with the MPSAFE
> >>  callout_* API (e.g. callout_init_mtx(9)). This was one of the numerous
> >>  items on the http://wiki.freebsd.org/SMPTODO list.
> >>
> >>  Reviewed by:    imp, obrien, jhb
> >>  MFC after:      1 week
> >
> > I might give this one a month to MFC rather than a week -- it can take 
> > a while for bugs in this sort of thing to get diagnosed, especially 
> > with lots of other changes in the tree at the same time relating to 
> > schedulers, etc.
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> >
> Thanks, that's a good idea. I'll hold onto it for a month before it goes 
> into RELENG_7.
> 
> --
> Coleman
> 

Robert,

About a month later... I haven't gotten any problem reports from this.
One question: do you know if this applies to RELENG_6 as well?

-- 
Coleman Kane



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