Giantless VFS.

[Gary Jennejohn]

Peter Schultz writes:
> On Nov 22, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 
> >> I haven't received any feedback from the list though.  I hope people 
> >> are
> >> testing it.  Perhaps the silence indicates universal success? :-)
> >
> > Would it be interesting to try your patch on a UP system ?  To
> > anticipate an hypotetical affirmative answer, I'm already recompiling 
> > my
> > UP kernel with it.
> >
> >
> Reducing contention over the kernel is beneficial for any number of 
> processors.
> 

With a tree just updated per cvsup about 30 minutes ago:

root:peedub:sys:bash:8> patch < ~/freebsd/smpffs.diff
root:peedub:sys:bash:7> find . -type f -name \*.rej | xargs ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  539 Nov 22 19:22 ./kern/init_sysent.c.rej
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  522 Nov 22 19:22 ./kern/syscalls.c.rej
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  524 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/syscall.h.rej
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  557 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/syscall.mk.rej
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  531 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/sysproto.h.rej

:-(

I have the latest (only?) vesion of the patch.

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