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To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Qustion about being "Giant-locked" 
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In message <20040406191025.S56300@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>, Andy Farkas writes
:

>What I was trying to point out is that there is hardly any concurrency
>with disk drivers on a SMP box.

We are not done with SMP(ng) locking the disk access.

One way to help is this:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.txt

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