svn commit: r304436 - in head: . sys/netinet

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 29 22:00:46 UTC 2016


On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:36:58PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
R> - The if_addr_lock would appear to be an excellent candidate to be
R> converted into an rmlock, but unfortunately we made the mistake of exposing
R> the lock through the ifnet KPI.  Fixing that would require rototilling
R> every single Ethernet/WiFi/etc driver in the tree.

Just my 2 cents: that's why I'd like to encourage developers to do a big
leap with new ifnet KPI (which will give only pointer to struct ifnet
to drivers), and then with our hands unentagled improve the network stack.

See projects/ifnet branch in the subversion.


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