Re: ahc/ahd locking

[Erik Wikström <Erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-12-31 03:43, Peter Avalos wrote:
> I've attempted to bring in some locking for the ahc and ahd drivers from
> FreeBSD.  This is my first attempt with locking mechanisms, and I'd
> appreciate some input on the attached patch.
> 
> Doing this brought along some questions:
> 
> 1.  When should you use spinlocks instead of lockmgr locks?  Would this
> code be better with spinlocks?  If so, are there any gotchas I need to
> know about?
> 
> 2.  tsleep->msleep.  Did I do that right, or can only spinlocks be used?

Aggelos recently added some notes about how to convert FreeBSD locks to
DFBSD locks:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/doc/notes/porting_drivers.txt

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Erik Wikström