There are some sections of the network stack, such as the KAME IPSEC implementation, parts of IPv6, and some device drivers, which are not yet completely MPSAFE. This may or may not be an issue depending on what your requirements are. If you have any bug fixes or improvements, we would love to hear about them -- right now our locking is fairly coarse-grained but we'll be looking at contention issues over the next few months to see how best to refine our locking strategy.
We wanted to have fine-grained locking (BeOS/Haiku emphasizes on threading very much), but at least having some locking is better than our current situation (nearly no locking ;). Our first aim is to get a stable modularized netstack, finally. The next steps would be fine-grained locking and maybe trying out iovecs instead of mbufs.
Having IPv4 ready is a good start. IPv6 is not too urgent at the moment.
Bye, Waldemar Kornewald _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
