locking & iovecs

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:03:03AM +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>>You can implement mutexes using semaphores, but semaphores tend to be a
> >>>more expensive since they are more expressive them mutexes.
> >>
> >>Using a benaphore instead would improve speed significantly and as you 
> >>only use macros we can easily replace those with our benaphore code, is 
> >>that really so simple? Sorry, I cannot believe that. :)
> >
> >Once GIANT is really gone, it may be nearly that easy.  We're a ways
> >from that though.
> 
> So, the code is not fully thread-safe yet (we want to drop GIANT)? Then, 
> I misunderstood something. Will 5.3 be freed of GIANT?

I believe IPv4 is pretty close other then NIC drivers, but IPv6 is
largely not done yet.  GIANT will definatly not be gone in 5.3.

-- Brooks

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