Date: 24 Sep 2000 20:39:14 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device? Message-ID: <xzpn1gxd48d.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:30:08 -0700" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009080008090.527-100000@thelab.hub.org> <200009080314.VAA50701@harmony.village.org> <xzp7l817ij1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000924113008.N9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes: > This is basically a result of the entire kernel running at the > equivelant of splhigh, all interrupts are blocked until a context > switch in kernel land. > > There's work in progress to mpsafe the drivers (at least for > ethernet, more will arrive later). OK. Assuming I wanted to try and help with this work, where would be a good place to start finding out what needs to be done? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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