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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:53 -0400
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GIANT-FREE ciss
Message-ID:  <4542AFFD.7070100@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <4542A948.5080809@freebsd.org>
References:  <45429B67.4020500@rogers.com> <4542A948.5080809@freebsd.org>

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Paul Saab wrote:
> I did experiments and found that ciss did not gain any thing by making 
> it MPSAFE.  This may have changed with newer cards, but with all the 
> older cards, there was no gain.

Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware that this was a possible 
case. Wouldn't the GIANT lock have a negative effect on other 
applications/system? Or is my understanding of the lock flawed?




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