From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 18 15:30:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5411065672 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sullrich@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473758FC20 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sullrich@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so3270303bwz.43 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 08:30:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kR0mgdPPPIvXVBZZHdmFiGmjB+d0O79FJLPBEx7ciDg=; b=xTGaasG5vn75uA+2bZeO20/d5ouBns48Lbc3Dor4wxLoypXlZrVbkY84GrLlfrgN+0 XZMVmptmVyjNlQCC2o5LwdxqkxjVYe5NexuFUbZ7eF8MCdjcMvALmlYJyk26h6P7+h6r ANTkQuycbDuCBhktDCA7H7wN7upLkBcS+RZ4Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kUQdtJMy9Hd+quJhssyVIMNbFc1gQgedpCEdHl19lD553WIo+d2fS0o6BAFj7BB4/8 oxnrVjG8gOP2G2h4tE/sxSiTSgWFwYsNY3S1Q2cMiMjcTBTKm3BDRDhyxOQfVASXGpzJ IrZ/3ZSdwNZsxkXChfqNPMldor0w5QA7YYM88= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.119.129 with SMTP id z1mr6833535bkq.67.1242660601190; Mon, 18 May 2009 08:30:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7f8c92fb0905180124m24346fc3x2b39c8d4a5bfa893@mail.gmail.com> References: <7f8c92fb0905180124m24346fc3x2b39c8d4a5bfa893@mail.gmail.com> From: Scott Ullrich Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: To: jin wang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any plan to remove the global mutex lock (PF_LOCK/PF_UNLOCK) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter \(pf\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:04 -0000 > Is there any plan to remove the global mutex lock (PF_LOCK/PF_UNLOCK) ? I believe the plan is to do a sync against openbsd-current after 8.0 release and then begin to restructure the locking to allow it run across multiple cores/cpus targeting 9.0. Scott