Re: I/O permission bitmap patch for oskit-mach

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:45:21PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I haven't considered alternatives, like suspending threads.  I am not sure
> > if that would work.  I guess that if you do it within the I/O bitmap lock,
> > it could be safe, although it seems to me that it is potentially much
> > slower than the other approach (not that it would matter much).
> > 
> > If that approach actually works, we might put it in for the SMP case until
> > we have a better solution?
> 
> I'm happy to leave it as a documented bug, and not worry about it
> until SMP is working.  ("Documented" means somewhere other than
> comments in the code and mailing list entries. :)))

Right, I will certainly come around to add those calls to the mach.texi,
and then document this there with a @warning.

Thanks,
Marcus