From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 20 07:31:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446DD16A405 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:31:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D34213C4BF for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:31:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: by zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix, from userid 3973) id C2FD133C94; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:31:50 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:31:50 +0200 From: John Hay To: "Bruce M. Simpson" Message-ID: <20070320073150.GA19859@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20070319203709.1272a470@debian> <45FF0B49.9060008@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45FF0B49.9060008@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: networking code and splx() X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:31:54 -0000 On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:14:33PM +0000, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Ignacio Rey wrote: > >... > >The question is: Have calls to these functions been wrapped? or are they > >simply not used in this context? > > > splx() and friends have been no-ops since FreeBSD 5.x was branched. > Synchronization is now done using other mechanisms such as mutexes and > spin locks. See the new man page locking(9) in -CURRENT. It does not seem to get installed: Doing a grep for locking in /usr/src/share/man/man9/Makefile produce nothing. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org