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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:05:05 +1100
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_ef rotten
Message-ID:  <45660D01.9000102@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061123115046.S50054@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20061123114254.GO1841@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20061123115046.S50054@fledge.watson.org>

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On 23/11/2006 10:55 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 
>> When trying to kldload if_ef (on yesterday CURRENT/amd64, with WITNESS 
>> and almost all debugging enabled), I got a lot of "malloc(M_WAITOK) of 
>> "XXX", forcing M_NOWAIT with the following non-sleepable locks held: 
>> ... ifnet ..."
>>
>> Is it rotten ? (No, I do not use it, just noted it when doing some 
>> other testing work).
> 
> There are three general classes of problems with if_ef:
...

If you are looking for any testers of if_ef-related work, we use it 
quite heavily (with nwfs and IPX), although my -CURRENT test machine is 
currently in pieces, so I haven't done any testing on -CURRENT just at 
the moment! If you need any additional information from a in-use 
environment, patches to be tested, etc, I'll volunteer...

--Antony



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