From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 08:05:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CB316A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta10-svc.ntlworld.com (mta10-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235CE43D1D for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:05:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m97-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.84.97]) by mta10-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20041018080430.BVPP20770.mta10-svc.ntlworld.com@m97-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net>; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:04:30 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: Kris Kennaway Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:51:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200410171238.04809.ben@spooty.net> <20041017185503.GC71495@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041017185503.GC71495@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410180851.52309.ben@spooty.net> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Giant and MPSAFE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:05:58 -0000 On Sunday 17 October 2004 19:55, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Some subsystems have not yet been modified so they take advantage of > multiple processors. aio is one of them, and because it interlinks > with the network subsystem, if you have it in your kernel you can't > make use of smp in the entire network stack. > > It's unlikely that you really need aio since it's still experimental > code, so you can just compile it out of your kernel. Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What line should I comment out to get rid of it? Cheers, Ben