Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:07:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reminder: NET_NEEDS_GIANT, debug.mpsafenet going away in Message-ID: <200707181807.l6II7twY010844@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:42:14 +0200 Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
>[ Excess CC-list ... testers needed!!! ]
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>On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Watson wrote:
I missed Robert Watson's start of thread, so I'm jumping in here
with a question.
>> Dear all:
>>
>> This is a reminder e-mail that, in the very near future, Giant
>> compatibility shims for network protocols will be removed.
>
How, if at all, will this affect qemu users? qemu exits unless
AIO is present in the kernel (or aio.ko has been kldload-ed). In
FreeBSD 6.2, AIO results in a warning message at boot time that says
AIO is not MPSAFE and that therefore the networking stack will take a
deep performance hit.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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