On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Bruce, I've looked at the vector assembly and it looks like cleaning
> up critical_enter() and critical_exit() for i386 ought to be simple.
>
> If you have a complete patch set I would like to see it posted for
> review or comitted, or if you don't want to deal with the commit I
> would love to have it so I can bang it into shape for commit.
Patches for most of my sys tree are in sys.tar.gz in my home directory
on freefall.
> Having a sleek critical_enter()/critical_exit() would double sched_lock's
> performance.
I'm not sure about that. Perhaps I've already optimized sched_lock
enough that I don't notice. My changes were actually directed at
avoiding sched_lock's interrupt latency and it wasn't until the
critical_enter()/ exit() calls pessimized mtx_{lock,unlock}_spin in
-current that I managed to share enough code (the critnest
increment/decrement) to avoid losing efficiency.
Bruce
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