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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:36:15 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How stable is 7 now? How to cvs it?
Message-ID:  <20070815173615.GA71910@rot26.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <004001c7df0a$fc2a5c10$0c00a8c0@Artem>
References:  <004001c7df0a$fc2a5c10$0c00a8c0@Artem>

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0400, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have heard that 7 is very stable since november and
> much better (perfomance wise since GIANT lock have been
> deleted completely) since that time.
> 
> Is it true?

No, it is still lurking in some corners of the kernel, but almost all
workloads no longer require it.

Kris



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