sysctl locking

[Scott Long]

Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/sysctl-locking.diff 
> removes Giant from the sysctl subsystem.
> I tested it on i386 and powerpc, where it appears to work perfectly. 
> However, I have not been able to test it on an SMP box, as I don't have 
> access to any.
> So I would appreciate it if someone would test it, and report any problems.
> I will commit it in about week, unless, of course, there are 
> objections/problems.
> 
> Bye
> -- 

Please don't start setting timeouts for committing this until you've
thoroughly tested it on a real SMP system, preferable on all of our
tier-1 SMP platforms, and have gotten some review.  If no one steps
forward to review this patch then let me know and I'll make sure it
happens.

Scott