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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r304436 - in head: . sys/netinet
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:36:58PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
R> - The if_addr_lock would appear to be an excellent candidate to be
R> converted into an rmlock, but unfortunately we made the mistake of exposing
R> the lock through the ifnet KPI.  Fixing that would require rototilling
R> every single Ethernet/WiFi/etc driver in the tree.

Just my 2 cents: that's why I'd like to encourage developers to do a big
leap with new ifnet KPI (which will give only pointer to struct ifnet
to drivers), and then with our hands unentagled improve the network stack.

See projects/ifnet branch in the subversion.


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