From: Max Laier <m...@love2party.net> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: vimage - virtualized global variables in the network stack Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:45:16 +0100
> On Saturday 13 December 2008 20:33:53 Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > ... > > This state of having the variables in parallel, global and in the > > container struct, will be maintained for another (short) time until > > the entire virtualization framework is in. This is needed, so that > > all three possible states can be benchmarked from exactly the same > > code changeset. > > > > > > For developers comitting new code or changing code it is important to > > properly add virtualized variables in the way that: > > 1) the globals and externs (if needed) are added/kept in sync as both > > a) globals under #ifdef VIMAGE_GLOBALS and b) to the appropriate > > container struct + the V_ macro. > > When used somewhere in code one has to use the V_foobarbaz version. > > Is there (an easy) way to have the tinderbox build every other run without > VIMAGE_GLOBALS so that the most obvious error (global available, but not in > the container struct - or the other way around) can be warned about? This actually points out why the 'tinderbox' name is bogus for the universe plus failure: universe builds all the kernels. Tinderbox builds LINT only. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
