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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
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	Matthew Dillon on Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:19:33 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
>     The network stack is equally easy to make MP-safe.  In this case we
>     have a shared lock to lookup sockets for host/port combinations and
>     then fine-grained exclusive locks within those sockets.  Route table
>     and other high level operations could in fact remain BGL'd without
>     interfering with the network stack because the network stack *already*
>     caches route table lookups.
> 

	might it be fair to summarize this as: you locks on data
rather than locks on code.

jmb


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