Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:25:01 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl locking Message-ID: <41BD43CD.3000900@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <94AE3F5A-4CD6-11D9-8BD6-000A95C4D7BC@FreeBSD.org> References: <94AE3F5A-4CD6-11D9-8BD6-000A95C4D7BC@FreeBSD.org>
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Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hello, > > The patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/sysctl-locking.diff > removes Giant from the sysctl subsystem. > I tested it on i386 and powerpc, where it appears to work perfectly. > However, I have not been able to test it on an SMP box, as I don't have > access to any. > So I would appreciate it if someone would test it, and report any problems. > I will commit it in about week, unless, of course, there are > objections/problems. > > Bye > -- Please don't start setting timeouts for committing this until you've thoroughly tested it on a real SMP system, preferable on all of our tier-1 SMP platforms, and have gotten some review. If no one steps forward to review this patch then let me know and I'll make sure it happens. Scott
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