From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 09:18:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE6016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:18:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (cairo.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E74F43D1F for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:18:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au) Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.0) with ESMTP id iBO9IRWn028140 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:18:30 +1100 (EST) Received: (from avalon@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.0.Beta16) id iBO9IRlo028138 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:18:27 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:18:27 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200412240918.iBO9IRlo028138@cairo.anu.edu.au> To: current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:59 +0000 Subject: IPFilter patched for SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:18:32 -0000 I've just committed some changes to IPFilter in FreeBSD-current that remove the "needs giant" flag and enables fine grained locking. I'd really like to hear back from anyone who can stress test this out on a multi-cpu machine. The locking used is the same as for Solaris and IRIX, so I'm relatively confident it shouldn't cause any deadlocks but I'd still like to see it tested. Merry Christmas, Darren