From owner-freebsd-net Sat Sep 29 8: 5:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ardbeg.meer.net (ardbeg.meer.net [209.157.152.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B168337B405 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meer.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by ardbeg.meer.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8TF5Cj99049; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neville-neil.com (pm3b-85.mv.meer.net [209.157.137.85]) by meer.meer.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/meer) with ESMTP id IAA2735004; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109291504.IAA2735004@meer.meer.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions... In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:24:56 CDT." <20010929002456.M59854@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:04:53 -0700 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The most signifigant changes that I can think of are: > SMP primatives > KSE > FFS Snapshots > Cardbus > Other than KSE (which I've only seen lately and so I don't know what it is) SMP should be the only thing that deeply affects the stack, at least to my currently limited knowledge. > Hopefully, there's nothing inherently bad with it that will make it > too difficult. Well, no more difficult than the current network stack. The number of global variables (at least when I was looking at the old 4.4 BSD Lite code) is not insignificant. Also, have y'all removed the spl() code locks (ala BSD/OS) yet? > Why the sudden interest? I'm working up a proposal for Addison/Wesley to rework/rewrite the Stevens books (Volume I and II) and of course for Volume II this stuff is all quite important since I intend to use the FreeBSD code base as the basis for it. I want to find out what the trajectory of the code is so I can decide which version to put in the book. I'm hoping that it will be 5.0 (or 5.something) so that by the time that code base is shipped (November 2002) the book won't be too far behind it. Thanks, George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message