[PATCH] Add locking to twe(4) so it no longer uses Giant

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, August 03, 2012 4:42:59 pm Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 8/3/2012 3:39 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday, August 03, 2012 2:56:00 pm Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> I'll try to find time to try it later today, but I'm in the middle of
> >> budget wrangling and I can't make any promises.
> >>
> >> Before I try, will these patches apply to the twe driver in
> >> 9.1-PRERELEASE? My system with twe was updated to RELENG_9 on July 18.
> >> I really don't have time to install current right now.
> > 
> > I believe the patches should apply fine on 8 and 9.  If you use it on 8 or 
9
> > please make sure to enable INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT at least for
> > initial testing.  Thanks!
> 
> Seems to apply to RELENG_9 just fine.  Are there any stress tests you
> suggest I run that might expose some bugs ? The machine is not
> production yet, so its ok to crash it.

Probably pho's stress2 stuff.  Thinks like dbench might be a good start as 
well for initial testing.

-- 
John Baldwin