Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:39:47 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add locking to twe(4) so it no longer uses Giant Message-ID: <201208031539.47735.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1t824WcE3J_9%2BG_VK7QNWr=yuxLdBLMyB_wFZB-OaqrTA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201208031418.57941.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1t824WcE3J_9%2BG_VK7QNWr=yuxLdBLMyB_wFZB-OaqrTA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, August 03, 2012 2:56:00 pm Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'll try to find time to try it later today, but I'm in the middle of > budget wrangling and I can't make any promises. > > Before I try, will these patches apply to the twe driver in > 9.1-PRERELEASE? My system with twe was updated to RELENG_9 on July 18. > I really don't have time to install current right now. I believe the patches should apply fine on 8 and 9. If you use it on 8 or 9 please make sure to enable INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT at least for initial testing. Thanks! > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:18 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > We only have a few storage drivers left that use Giant and twe(4) is one of > > them. I don't have any hardware to test with, however. I have verified the > > patch compiles, but I'd appreciate it if some folks with twe(4) hardware could > > test it. > > > > The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/twe_locking.patch > -- John Baldwin
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