Is there any plan to remove the global mutex lock (PF_LOCK/PF_UNLOCK) ?

Scott Ullrich sullrich at gmail.com
Mon May 18 15:30:04 UTC 2009


> Is there any plan to remove the global mutex lock (PF_LOCK/PF_UNLOCK) ?

I believe the plan is to do a sync against openbsd-current after 8.0
release and then begin to restructure the locking to allow it run
across multiple cores/cpus targeting 9.0.

Scott


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