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Subject: GIANT-FREE ciss
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Are there any plans/work to make a giant-less ciss driver? Its a fairly 
popular driver that is used on some high end systems, and many systems 
now are running in SMP mode. Its a shame that they have to endure the 
performance penalty of the GIANT lock.