From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 00:58:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429CD1065673 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.mail.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF3D78FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8293 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jan 2012 00:58:22 -0000 Received: from 67.206.186.240 by rms-us004.v300.gmx.net with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:19 -0500 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20120119005820.218250@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: +w9lbyU03zOlNR3dAHAho85+IGRvbwAO Subject: Giant lock gone? (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:58:25 -0000 > The original goal for 5.0 was to completely remove the Giant lock (and > do other cool SMP-related stuff). Eventually it was realized that this > was too big a goal to fully accomplish in 5.0 (albeit too late in the > process) and the goal was changed to do the basic framework for the new > SMP model; and lay the groundwork for "some things run under Giant for > now, and we'll remove it from them ASAP." That actually turned out to > last through 6, making 7 the realization of what 5.0 was supposed to be. So you are saying that the Giant lock was completely removed in 7.0? 8.2 says: atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]