Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:41:57 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please test: MPSAFE callouts Message-ID: <20050225164156.GC43437@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200502251734.08309.max@love2party.net> References: <200502211852.01792.max@love2party.net> <200502251734.08309.max@love2party.net>
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* Max Laier <max@love2party.net> [20050225 19:34]: wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 18:51, Max Laier wrote: > > All, > > > > Pyun reminded me that we are still useing Giant to protect our callouts. We > > don't have to since we protect our code in there with our own mutex and the > > netstack is Giant-free as well now (provided that mpsafenet is enabled). > > > > If you have testing capabilities, please take the attached diffs for a ride > > (on SMP hardware) with debug.mpsafenet=1 and MPSAFE NICs. It'd be great if > > we could enable it for 5.4R, but we need proper testing to do so! > > > > NOTE: If you use user/group rules you still need to set debug.mpsafenet=0, > > but testing of this scenario is welcome as well. > > > > Thanks in advance for your feedback! > > Has anyone even cared enough to compile this? C'mon it's not that hard and we > really need some feedback! I don't have an SMP hardware otherwise I could have tried ;) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves.
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