On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:03:03AM +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >>>You can implement mutexes using semaphores, but semaphores tend to be a > >>>more expensive since they are more expressive them mutexes. > >> > >>Using a benaphore instead would improve speed significantly and as you > >>only use macros we can easily replace those with our benaphore code, is > >>that really so simple? Sorry, I cannot believe that. :) > > > >Once GIANT is really gone, it may be nearly that easy. We're a ways > >from that though. > > So, the code is not fully thread-safe yet (we want to drop GIANT)? Then, > I misunderstood something. Will 5.3 be freed of GIANT?
I believe IPv4 is pretty close other then NIC drivers, but IPv6 is largely not done yet. GIANT will definatly not be gone in 5.3. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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