Kyunghwan Kim writes:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:53:00AM +0900, Kyunghwan Kim wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:31:31PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > > > mbuf and bpf routines are all mp-safe, so it seems that
> > > > it is safe to make network device drivers out of Giant lock.
>
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:53:00AM +0900, Kyunghwan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:31:31PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > > mbuf and bpf routines are all mp-safe, so it seems that
> > > it is safe to make network device drivers out of Giant lock.
> > > Or is there any unresolved rela
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:31:31PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > mbuf and bpf routines are all mp-safe, so it seems that
> > it is safe to make network device drivers out of Giant lock.
> > Or is there any unresolved related issues?
>
> Yes, the mbuf allocator must occasionally call kmem_ma
Kyunghwan Kim writes:
> Is it okay to add INTR_MPSAFE for all INTR_TYPE_NET drivers?
NO!
> mbuf and bpf routines are all mp-safe, so it seems that
> it is safe to make network device drivers out of Giant lock.
> Or is there any unresolved related issues?
Yes, the mbuf allocator must occasio
