Re: Proper -current if_attach locking?

2003-01-06 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
ice private data protection, and ifnet lock for each ifnet struct protection (such as ifnet.if_mtx). Maybe these locks should be adaptive or spin And IFNET_*LOCK() should remain for adding/removing ifnet struct to the global ifnet whose type is ifnethead. In case of ifqueue, it should not need to acquire

What to do to make NIC driver mpsafe?

2003-01-04 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
Thanks to Alan Cox, kmem_malloc() is out from under Giant now. Then what should be done to make each NIC device drivers mpsafe? Can driver be mp-safe after adding if_dc style per-device data locking? -- Kyunghwan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Device polling support for em and ti

2002-05-28 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
djade/patches/em_diff http://atropos.snu.ac.kr/~redjade/patches/ti_diff Thanks. -- Kyunghwan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Bandwidth reservation?

2002-05-14 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
guaranteed. In other words, bandwidth guarantee by reserving not by limiting. How should dummynet be modified to meet the need? If there is related works or papers, please let me know. -- Kyunghwan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

divert part is missing in bridge?

2002-05-01 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
at handles diverted packets in bridge is not yet implemented? Regards, Kyunghwan Kim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message

Intel nics (fxp, wx, gx) questions

2001-11-09 Thread Kyunghwan Kim
there was no HEADUP and no UPDATING change about this. I've read Matthew's log about removing if_wx* in cvsweb, but reasons which his conclusion is based on is not enough for me. Would someone tell me in detail? Thanks in advance. Regards, Kyunghwan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To U