Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:25:43 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Message-ID: <200004232025.NAA06779@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:14:21 PDT." <200004232014.NAA64138@apollo.backplane.com>
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>:> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... >:> that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that >:> is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be >:> recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. >:> >:> The SMP patchset, in fact, requires that all kernel modules be >:> recompiled due to the locks that were removed from the spl*() macros. I wonder if they really must be recompiled. It sounds like that would improve performance, but is seems like gratuitous locking in this area wouldn't necessarily cause things to break. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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