On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > 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?
Including some components in the kernel will force the Giant lock back over the network stack. For example, if you compile with KAME IPSEC or IPX. There is active work in many of those areas to remove that requirement. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
