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Re: RFC: mpsafe bridge and NIC drivers (vioif and wm)
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>
wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2014, at 5:56 AM, Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%iij.ad.jp@localhost> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Matt Thomas
>> <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 20, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%iij.ad.jp@localhost>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've prepared a trial patch of MPSAFE networking.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/mpsafe-wm.diff
>>>>
>>>
>>> The kmutex_t in ifqueue, etc. should be pointers and not in the structure
>>> themselves.
>>> That can simply the macros to test for a NULL pointer for the locks in the
>>> non-WM case.
>>>
>>> Consider using mutex_obj_alloc to get mutexes instead of the embedding them
>>> in the
>>> structures.
>>
>> Well...do you mean that the macros should be like these?
>>
>> #define WM_LOCK(_sc) if ((_sc)->sc_txrx_lock)
>> mutex_enter((_sc)->sc_txrx_lock)
>> #define WM_UNLOCK(_sc) if ((_sc)->sc_txrx_lock)
>> mutex_exit((_sc)->sc_txrx_lock)
>
> I more thinking of the ifq macros.
>
I see.
So I updated the patch: http://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/mpsafe-wm.diff
Regards,
ozaki-r
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