question about the exchanges of td->td_lock and mtx in sched_switch() of sched_ule

[Attilio Rao]

2011/10/13 Haozhong Zhang <snowzh8512 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm recently reading the code of sched_ule in freebsd 8.2.0 and have two
> questions.
>
> 1. sched_switch() (in sched_ule.c) invokes cpu_switch() (at line 1852) and
> thread_unblock_switch() (at line 1867). These two functions exchange
> td->td_lock and mtx. What are the purposes of these exchanges?
>
> 2. Can the exchange in cpu_switch() (in amd64/amd64/cpu_switch.S, at line
> 134) be done before calling cpu_switch()? I mean, does this reorder of
> exchange and other operations in cpu_switch() cause side-effects to other
> code?

This thread should have the details you need:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2010-January/019345.html

Attilio


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