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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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 :) --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ7GueldnAQVacBcgRAiUnAJ9cZN0xV6Owk0JtWEmFkwqqVgzFbgCfSb+2 C3YVlmj9/F2bKliC1j/SorY= =xU1S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0--
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