From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 00:53:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9C116A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osiris.ipform.ru (osiris.itlegion.ru [212.248.52.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E595543D58 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from artem (artem.office.ipform.ru [192.168.0.12]) by osiris.ipform.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i367rCXg032539; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:53:14 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web (http://www.drweb.net) Message-ID: <001f01c41bab$ae842570$0c00a8c0@artem> From: "Artem Koutchine" To: "Xin LI" References: <009401c41ba5$3b000f70$0c00a8c0@artem> <20040406071205.GA2819@frontfree.net> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:49:20 +0400 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qustion about being "Giant-locked" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:53:38 -0000 >> While booting i see many drivers marked >> as [Giant-locked]. >> Is being Giant-locked good or bad what are the >> implications? >It's not good if you have a computer with multiple processors. Well, i do have dual xeon with HT (4 logical CPUs). Is there any way to fight giant-locked drivers or i just have to wait until the driver will be rewritten w/o Giant? Or there are some kernel options to disable Giant lock in the drivers? Regards, Artem