From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 18:24:33 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 8B15016A417; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077E613C4C2; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:24:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [88.66.59.43] (helo=amd64.laiers.local) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML31I-1IBEBx3FFg-0003x5; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:24:12 +0200 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: Scott Bennett Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:23:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707181807.l6II7twY010844@mp.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200707181807.l6II7twY010844@mp.cs.niu.edu> X-Face: ,,8R(x[kmU]tKN@>gtH1yQE4aslGdu+2]; R]*pL,U>^H?)gW@49@wdJ`H<=?utf-8?q?=25=7D*=5FBD=0A=09U=5For=3D=5CmOZf764=26nYj=3DJYbR1PW0ud?=>|!~,,CPC.1-D$FG@0h3#'5"k{V]a~.<=?utf-8?q?mZ=7D44=23Se=7Em=0A=09Fe=7E=5C=5DX5B=5D=5Fxj?=(ykz9QKMw_l0C2AQ]}Ym8)fU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707182024.01380.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19eEl6lKuqv1UQWwT/FMzwvOz3QKempCkasCpi xbgx61bo0c8LT5Zj2DylW+nXy8093v1JOaWfCN28LX6oMkiDqe rgheioHifripFD2X5i1DAdw2H1h1/lSLffOeOXQSKA= Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: Reminder: NET_NEEDS_GIANT, debug.mpsafenet going away in 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: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:24:33 -0000 --nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Cc: list trimmed a bit more --SB] > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:42:14 +0200 Max Laier > > >[ Excess CC-list ... testers needed!!! ] > > > >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. This has already been answered in the original thread. AIO is mpsafe as=20 of Tue May 9 00:10:11 2006 (vfs_aio.c, rev 1.223). =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGnlrBXyyEoT62BG0RApVWAJ9SH9zZZo717QOuwMq+zd6dELlKWQCfeJwP h+qN45bwng93dAoptkOzJwQ= =PF1h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1451727.14gfUS2vFd--