Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:05:58 -0600 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Subject: Re: Giant lock gone? (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle) Message-ID: <20120119120558.GA16345@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <4F17FB7A.802@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120119005820.218250@gmx.com> <4F17FB7A.802@FreeBSD.org>
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(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
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