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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:18:29 +0000
From: "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@freebsd.org>
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I have generated a patch which appears to solve the lock ordering
issues associated with ucred based filtering which results in
hard locks (while mpsafenet=1). 

This patch basically implements a shared locking mechanism.

http://people.freebsd.org/~csjp/ip_fw2.c.1099500281.diff

It would be appriciated if interested parties could download it,
load a large number of rules and try to manipulate (delete/add)
rules under high loads.

Thanks!

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Christian S.J. Peron
csjp@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer