Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:44:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what to do with softinterrupts? Message-ID: <20000912104408.M12231@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200009121515.JAA29329@berserker.bsdi.com>; from cp@bsdi.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:15:04AM -0600 References: <200009121515.JAA29329@berserker.bsdi.com>
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* Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com> [000912 08:15] wrote: > > Before you can run soft interrupts on multiple processors > I believe there is a stuff in the tcp/ip stack that can't be fixed > by simple locking. For instance ip_srcrt and tcp_saveipgen come > to mind. At a glance they just seem to be globals that ought to wind uo on the stack and passed down through the protocol levels/functions. I understand that they contain state that must be saved for the packet processing run thought ip_input->tcp_input. I do need to study the interaction more carefully, but is this not the case? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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