On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:44:42AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:32:36PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> 
>  > However there doesn't seem to be any locking of the process
>  > p_sibling chain, p_pglist nor of some other minor items [1].
>  > 
>  > Has someone missed these? or is the MP code only partially
>  > merged?
> 
> The MP code is merged, but is not fully fine-grained locking, yet.  Our
> MP still runs under a Big Lock.

looks at cvs history....

I see that you started making the PID allocation MP safe about
3 years ago.  Are there actualy any moves to complete it?
(with LOCKDEBUG defined it breaks its own comments in exit2())

	David

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