On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hello all, > > I was just wondering about this... I recently bumped a soon-to-be > production box to 6.0 as it seems like upgrading now is easier than doing > it the week after the box goes into production (it's amazing how the > release engineering team knows to schedule this way...:). > > One thing I noticed in reviewing the boot messages is that twe is still > under the giant lock: > > twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port > 0x2860-0x286f mem 0xf4000000-0xf47fffff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0 > twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 > > I bring this up because I could have sworn that I read here or elsewhere > that this driver was revamped. I also could have sworn that at some point > in 5.x it was not under giant. Maybe I'm imagining things...
Under later 5.x the message was not reported except under boot -v because too many people were seeing the message and panicking thinking that it was a regression compared to 4.x, since 4.x didn't say anything about giant locking (but of course under 4.x the ENTIRE KERNEL was giant locked). > Anyhow, does anyone know the status of this, and also is there a central > repository that tracks changes like this that I can watch? Yes, you can subscribe to the cvs mailing lists. Kris
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