From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 10:17:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD6016A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out.wananchi.com (smtp-out.wananchi.com [62.8.64.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AEA43D5F for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com ([62.8.64.4]) by smtp-out.wananchi.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44 #0 (FreeBSD 5.2.1)) id 1D4iXO-000PL0-1Q for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:41:58 +0300 Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.44 #0 (FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE)) id 1D4iXN-000Dny-64 by authid for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:41:57 +0300 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:41:57 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050225164156.GC43437@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-pf@freebsd.org References: <200502211852.01792.max@love2party.net> <200502251734.08309.max@love2party.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502251734.08309.max@love2party.net> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.6i (2004-02-01) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Please test: MPSAFE callouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter (pf) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:17:51 -0000 * Max Laier [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 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.