>I think that the goal should be to make KLDs work with all kinds of >kernels. And the only place where this seems to be a problem is with >zalloc and zfree. So it seems to me that one of the following could >be done to solve it: > >a. make zalloc and zfree non-inline >b. call zalloci and zfreei in code that can end up in KLDs >c. call zalloci and zfreei everywhere where it's not performance-critical
There are many potential problems with SMP kernels. Many of the inline functions in <machine/cpufunc.h> depend on SMP. We've already pessimised the usual (non-SMP) case by uninlining a few too many spl-related functions. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
