Please test: MPSAFE callouts

Odhiambo Washington wash at wananchi.com
Sat Feb 26 10:17:51 GMT 2005


* Max Laier <max at love2party.net> [20050225 19:34]: wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 18:51, Max Laier wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Pyun reminded me that we are still useing Giant to protect our callouts. We
> > don't have to since we protect our code in there with our own mutex and the
> > netstack is Giant-free as well now (provided that mpsafenet is enabled).
> >
> > If you have testing capabilities, please take the attached diffs for a ride
> > (on SMP hardware) with debug.mpsafenet=1 and MPSAFE NICs.  It'd be great if
> > we could enable it for 5.4R, but we need proper testing to do so!
> >
> > NOTE: If you use user/group rules you still need to set debug.mpsafenet=0,
> > but testing of this scenario is welcome as well.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your feedback!
> 
> Has anyone even cared enough to compile this?  C'mon it's not that hard and we 
> really need some feedback!


I don't have an SMP hardware otherwise I could have tried ;)



-Wash

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