On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:07:24AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >Hmm, I thought that cold is zeroed before smp_started is set? > > I don't think that's guaranteed. Besides, there's an easier way to fix your > problem. Instead of calling kthread_create() from your geom create routine > directly, queue a > stub request on the thread taskqueue to call kthread_create(). > > For example, see sys/dev/acpica/acpi_acad.c. We call this from attach() > and then the system thread only runs and then calls acpi_acad_init() once all > CPUs are > initialized. See sys/sys/taskqueue.h for how to add a task to the system > thread taskqueue: > > taskqueue_enqueue(taskqueue_thread, &task);
If we want to fix it better, I think GEOM should start (tasting at least) after all CPUs are online. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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