Robert Watson writes: > tear-down magic. What Solaris does here, FYI, is basically add a lock > around > entering the device driver via their mac layer in order to prevent it from > "disappearing" while in use via the ifnet interface. I'm not sure if we > want
At least for GLDv2, this is a reader-writer lock. The transmit and receive paths take a read lock on the device's macinfo (like ifnet) struct, and the detach code takes a write lock. The Solaris driver model does not serialize transmits (or receives), as one might think from reading the above. Drew _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
