From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 20 12:33:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1033106564A for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-net@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258A98FC18 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-net@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lvsgz-0001ke-EM for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:45 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:45 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:33:24 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: IFF_NEEDSGIANT now gone from 8.x (was: svn commit: r191253 - head/sys/net (fwd)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:33:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > Dear all: >=20 > Just under four years ago, the non-MPSAFE network stack de-orbit burn > schedule was announced, setting out a plan for eliminating remaining us= e > of the Giant lock in the FreeBSD network stack. With the attached > commit, that plan is now complete, and almost all of the network stack > neither requires Giant nor runs with it. As always there are some loos= e > ends, especially in IPv6, but with any luck those can be dealt with 8.0= > also. >=20 > Special thanks are due to the people who worked on and shepherded the > last steps of this process -- especially Hans Petter Selasky, Alfred > Perlstein, Andrew Thompson, Ed Schouten, and John Baldwin, who > collectively bought our USB, tty, and other non-MPSAFE device driver > stacks into a post-SMPng world. I'll drink to that :) --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ7GueldnAQVacBcgRAiUnAJ9cZN0xV6Owk0JtWEmFkwqqVgzFbgCfSb+2 C3YVlmj9/F2bKliC1j/SorY= =xU1S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9946AA5053BA9EC89E5690D0--