cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 30 09:06:48 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:10:28AM +0000, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> mux         2004-07-30 09:10:28 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/vm               vm_map.c vm_map.h 
>   Log:
>   Get rid of another lockmgr(9) consumer by using sx locks for the user
>   maps.  We always acquire the sx lock exclusively here, but we can't
>   use a mutex because we want to be able to sleep while holding the
>   lock.  This is completely equivalent to what we were doing with the
>   lockmgr(9) locks before.

Not that I don't think it's worth doing in general, but is there a
comparison anyone has done between speeds of sx and lockmgr?

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