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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:51:51 +0100
From:      Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Giant and MPSAFE
Message-ID:  <200410180851.52309.ben@spooty.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041017185503.GC71495@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200410171238.04809.ben@spooty.net> <20041017185503.GC71495@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sunday 17 October 2004 19:55, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Some subsystems have not yet been modified so they take advantage of
> multiple processors.  aio is one of them, and because it interlinks
> with the network subsystem, if you have it in your kernel you can't
> make use of smp in the entire network stack.
>
> It's unlikely that you really need aio since it's still experimental
> code, so you can just compile it out of your kernel.

Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What line 
should I comment out to get rid of it?

Cheers,
Ben



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