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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:26:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   devfs patch, please test.
Message-ID:  <14087.1124223968@phk.freebsd.dk>

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http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/devfs.patch

Please test and report.


Back when devfs was first introduced, it was necessary to isolate the
device driver context(s) from the filesystem context(s) and a lot of
atomic instructions went into that.

Now that SMPng and various cleanups have simplified the world a bit,
this patch eliminates all the atomic fireworks and does away with the
"overflow" table and other nastyness.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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