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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:00:15 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r256587 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <20131017050015.GS52889@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokmOfMue6t82iAqo6UDxbQCF7wx_yyEKwZVQo-ewSyQEA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201310160502.r9G521cA066218@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmokmOfMue6t82iAqo6UDxbQCF7wx_yyEKwZVQo-ewSyQEA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:47:13PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
A> .. so what brought this on? I can see this fixing issues for things where a
A> virtual device is created with taskqueues (eg a tap device of some sort)
A> that get stuffed into a vnet context. But for physical interfaces whose
A> taskqueues don't have a specific vnet context and may need to set it
A> per-packet, what may this break?
A> 
A> Ie - what did this fix, and why isn't it being fixed in all the various
A> taskqueues in device drivers?
A> 
A> I'd rather not see the taskqueue setup (which knows nothing about network
A> contexts at all) grow this just to solve a bunch of places where the task
A> in question can just correctly initialise the context itself when it's
A> called.

Also, see

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-October/052359.html

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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