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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:02:44 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c
Message-ID:  <20040805030244.GB58239@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200408050237.i752baAT049513@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200408050237.i752baAT049513@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:37:36AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> rwatson     2004-08-05 02:37:36 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/net              bpf.c 
>   Log:
>   Do a lockless read of the BPF interface structure descriptor list head
>   before grabbing BPF locks to see if there are any entries in order to
>   avoid the cost of locking if there aren't any.  Avoids a mutex lock/
>   unlock for each packet received if there are no BPF listeners.

While you're there, do you want to check out the other problems I've been
noticing, relating to consistency/locking?

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