Hi Randall,

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Juli Mallett <jmall...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:43, Randall Stewart <r...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: rrs
>> Date: Sun May 16 19:43:48 2010
>> New Revision: 208165
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/208165
>>
>> Log:
>>  This pushes all of JC's patches that I have in place. I
>>  am now able to run 32 cores ok.. but I still will hang
>>  on buildworld with a NFS problem. I suspect I am missing
>>  a patch for the netlogic rge driver.
>>
>>  JC check and see if I am missing anything except your
>>  core-mask changes
>
> This isn't a very good commit message.  Commits communicate things
> going forward.  A follow-up E-Mail CCing JC would have been a good way
> to chat with him about its completeness.  More importantly, though,
> there's just no description of the contents.  This is particularly
> frustrating as it's also not broken up into functional chunks very
> well.  Given the fact that there are MI changes and pan-MIPS changes
> here it would be nice to see a little more care taken.  The changes to
> the MIPS MP code, for instance, I thought we had discussed and decided
> were sub-par and easily made less invasive.  I can't comment on the
> RMI-specific stuff except to say that it's an unenumerated jumble of
> VM, networking and SMP changes.
>

I agree with Juli.

This is especially true with respect to the changes to pmap.c. There
needed to be a companion set of changes to exception.S to undo some of
the changes to the TLB invalid handler that deal with recursive faults
in the TLB miss handler.

best
Neel
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