GIANT-FREE ciss

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Sat Oct 28 01:18:42 UTC 2006


Paul Saab wrote:
> I did experiments and found that ciss did not gain any thing by making 
> it MPSAFE.  This may have changed with newer cards, but with all the 
> older cards, there was no gain.

Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware that this was a possible 
case. Wouldn't the GIANT lock have a negative effect on other 
applications/system? Or is my understanding of the lock flawed?



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