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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:33:24 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IFF_NEEDSGIANT now gone from 8.x (was: svn commit: r191253 - head/sys/net (fwd))
Message-ID:  <gshq2q$q0k$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904182144320.34662__24041.8497393422$1240088232$gmane$org@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904182144320.34662__24041.8497393422$1240088232$gmane$org@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
>=20
> Dear all:
>=20
> Just under four years ago, the non-MPSAFE network stack de-orbit burn
> schedule was announced, setting out a plan for eliminating remaining us=
e
> of the Giant lock in the FreeBSD network stack.  With the attached
> commit, that plan is now complete, and almost all of the network stack
> neither requires Giant nor runs with it.  As always there are some loos=
e
> ends, especially in IPv6, but with any luck those can be dealt with 8.0=

> also.
>=20
> Special thanks are due to the people who worked on and shepherded the
> last steps of this process -- especially Hans Petter Selasky, Alfred
> Perlstein, Andrew Thompson, Ed Schouten, and John Baldwin, who
> collectively bought our USB, tty, and other non-MPSAFE device driver
> stacks into a post-SMPng world.

I'll drink to that :)


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