Re: should we use atomic instructions to manipulate vmstats.v_wire_count?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicolas Thery wrote:
> I noticed that vmstats.v_wire_count is incremented and decremented w/o
> protection.  In contrast, atomic instructions (from <atomic.h>) are
> used in freebsd.
>
> Is it a bug in dfly or is it intentional?

As far as I understand, we're requiring the mplock for vm operations, so that should be covered.

cheers
 simon

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