From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 12:06:01 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 27F1D106566B; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054F98FC1C; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 815AA56173; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:05:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:05:58 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20120119120558.GA16345@lonesome.com> References: <20120119005820.218250@gmx.com> <4F17FB7A.802@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F17FB7A.802@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:59 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD Subject: Re: 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 12:06:01 -0000 (sorry to reply to Doug but not Dieter, but I have already deleted the prior email) > On 01/18/2012 16:58, Dieter BSD wrote: > So you are saying that the Giant lock was completely removed in 7.0? It was completely removed from the network stack. That was the missing qualifier in his sentence. So, to a first approximation, it had been removed from all the places that were true performance-killers. mcl