On 21/06/2014 11:00 AM, Matt Thomas wrote: > On Jun 20, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Ryota Ozaki <ozak...@iij.ad.jp> 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.
This coding pattern goes against what is done almost everywhere else. What's the rationale behind it? Darren
