PERFORCE change 119371 for review

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed May 9 19:02:57 UTC 2007


On Sunday 06 May 2007 05:10:35 pm Rui Paulo wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=119371
> 
> Change 119371 by rpaulo at rpaulo_epsilon on 2007/05/06 21:10:15
> 
> 	We don't need any scheduler support because:
> 	1) msrtemp is a child of cpu - this implies that every
> 	   rdmsr/cpuid instruction will be executed on that CPU.

No, that isn't true.  You do need to use sched_bind() for that so you are 
really on the desired CPU when you read the MSR.
 	
> 	2) rdmsr/cpuid are atomic, so I don't need to worry about
> 	   any threads interfering.

This is true.

-- 
John Baldwin


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