From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 4 15:41:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DC937B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:41:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ada.snu.ac.kr (ada.snu.ac.kr [147.46.106.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952CF43EA9 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr) Received: from ada.snu.ac.kr (ada.snu.ac.kr [147.46.106.49]) by ada.snu.ac.kr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04Nf7jC008070; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:41:07 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr) Received: (from redjade@localhost) by ada.snu.ac.kr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h04Nf7g3008069; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:41:07 +0900 (KST) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:41:07 +0900 From: Kyunghwan Kim To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What to do to make NIC driver mpsafe? Message-ID: <20030104234107.GA8041@ada.snu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-My-Present-Organization: Innuworks, Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks to Alan Cox, kmem_malloc() is out from under Giant now. Then what should be done to make each NIC device drivers mpsafe? Can driver be mp-safe after adding if_dc style per-device data locking? -- Kyunghwan Kim redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message