need for another mutex type/flag?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901272001310.51605 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Wats
on writes:

>Right, but what I'm saying is: if we have a MTX_LEAFNODE flag for mtx_init(9), 
>it won't work for any code that holds the lock over a call to the mbuf 
>routines.  I am happy with us adding a MTX_LEAFNODE flag and would use it 
>myself, I just not sure it will work for Netgraph node mutexes.

100% agreement there, the kind of usage I expected for this was the
3-line protected regions that grab a reference count og stick something
onto a list etc.

Memory allocation and similar would not apply.

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