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http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/devfs.patch

Please test and report.


Back when devfs was first introduced, it was necessary to isolate the
device driver context(s) from the filesystem context(s) and a lot of
atomic instructions went into that.

Now that SMPng and various cleanups have simplified the world a bit,
this patch eliminates all the atomic fireworks and does away with the
"overflow" table and other nastyness.

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