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author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-09-28 03:45:16 +0000 |
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committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-09-28 03:45:16 +0000 |
commit | 6b3a0f9ca415388580eed4c93eb9e8b6214c4f2c (patch) | |
tree | 454b6df2257f7797c442ff2d22628fa6fbbcd104 /share/man | |
parent | eaeae65ffcd84982ee7e7c826512ac557ab5d940 (diff) | |
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Add stronger warning that spl is historical. I almost deleted this
man page entirely, but it is still mildly useful in understanding the
few splxxx usages we still have in the tree.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/spl.9 b/share/man/man9/spl.9 index 6a295e8..fe4bec2 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/spl.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/spl.9 @@ -74,6 +74,15 @@ Use mutexes to protect data structures instead. See .Xr mutex 9 for more information. +The API is now a complete NOP. +This man page documents historical behavior so you can understand the +code locking that the spl did when converting code from versions of the +kernel prior to +.Fx 5.0 . +The examples in this man page are also obsolete and should not be viewed +as documenting +.Fx 5.0 +and newer. .Ef .Pp The @@ -211,6 +220,9 @@ sets of functions to be blocked during some periods of the life of the system. The historical number scheme can be considered as a simple linearly ordered set of interrupt priority groups. +.Pp +.Fx 5.0 eliminated spl entirely in favor of locking primitives which scale +to more than one processor. .Sh AUTHORS This manual page was written by .An J\(:org Wunsch . |