From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 24 13:13: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DF737BBA2; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13091; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:12:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA24935; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:12:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:12:24 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Matthew Dillon , "Rodney W. Grimes" , 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 In-Reply-To: <14085.956602557@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <200004240617.XAA66270@apollo.backplane.com> <14085.956602557@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14596.39482.793985.323658@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > So you guys (core) choose -- do you want 4.x to reap the benefits of > > further SMP development or not? > > I've read all the feedback on this thread and now feel that it would > be worthwhile to simply bring the SMP changes in on Wednesday. As others > have pointed out, we don't have enough 3rd party 4.0 klds yet (I'd have > a hard time even saying "any") to make this a real problem so let's > just go for it. Are there any 3rd party NIC klds yet? If we're going to be having a module flag day, I'm thinking that it might be a good time to MFC Jonathan Lemon's checksum offloading code. Doing this would require changing MSIZE to 256, which in turn would require recompiling any module using mbufs (all NICs, network filesystems, etc). Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message