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. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
