Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:23:54 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reminder: NET_NEEDS_GIANT, debug.mpsafenet going away in Message-ID: <200707182024.01380.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200707181807.l6II7twY010844@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200707181807.l6II7twY010844@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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--nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Cc: list trimmed a bit more --SB] > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:42:14 +0200 Max Laier <max@love2party.net> > > >[ Excess CC-list ... testers needed!!! ] > > > >On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > > I missed Robert Watson's start of thread, so I'm jumping in here > with a question. > > >> Dear all: > >> > >> This is a reminder e-mail that, in the very near future, Giant > >> compatibility shims for network protocols will be removed. > > How, if at all, will this affect qemu users? qemu exits unless > AIO is present in the kernel (or aio.ko has been kldload-ed). In > FreeBSD 6.2, AIO results in a warning message at boot time that says > AIO is not MPSAFE and that therefore the networking stack will take a > deep performance hit. This has already been answered in the original thread. AIO is mpsafe as=20 of Tue May 9 00:10:11 2006 (vfs_aio.c, rev 1.223). =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGnlrBXyyEoT62BG0RApVWAJ9SH9zZZo717QOuwMq+zd6dELlKWQCfeJwP h+qN45bwng93dAoptkOzJwQ= =PF1h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd--
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