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From: Bruce Simpson
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 6:09 pm

Robert Watson wrote:

Just to say: this is good news for 8.x, particularly for VIMAGE.

Losing the Giant lock from the network drivers will resolve the 
possibility of a number of race conditions occurring in the network 
stack, which are particularly noticeable with VIMAGE, due to how 
protocol domains attach within vimages..

I'd expect that ongoing work could benefit by eliminating some use of 
netisrs, however, it might be a good idea to retain those for a little 
longer to make backporting to 7.x easier.

thanks,
BMS
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HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed ..., Robert Watson, (Mon Feb 16, 5:48 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Julian Elischer, (Mon Feb 16, 4:34 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Michael Butler, (Mon Feb 16, 5:18 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Krassimir Slavchev, (Tue Feb 17, 2:50 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Robert Watson, (Tue Feb 17, 3:26 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 4:05 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Michael Butler, (Tue Feb 17, 4:16 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 4:56 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Maksim Yevmenkin, (Tue Feb 17, 10:50 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 10:55 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Maksim Yevmenkin, (Tue Feb 17, 11:03 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 11:21 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Maksim Yevmenkin, (Tue Feb 17, 12:07 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 12:21 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Maksim Yevmenkin, (Tue Feb 17, 12:51 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Poul-Henning Kamp, (Tue Feb 17, 12:55 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Tue Feb 17, 1:05 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Julian Elischer, (Tue Feb 17, 1:33 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Poul-Henning Kamp, (Tue Feb 17, 2:19 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Bruce Simpson, (Wed Feb 18, 2:11 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Ed Schouten, (Thu Feb 19, 12:29 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Robert Watson, (Tue Feb 24, 12:30 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, removed, Bruce Simpson, (Tue Feb 24, 6:09 pm)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Robert Watson, (Sun Mar 15, 3:04 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Robert Watson, (Sun Mar 15, 7:27 am)
HEADS UP: if_ar, if_sr, *old* USB stack network driver users, Robert Watson, (Sun Mar 15, 8:54 am)
Re: HEADS UP: if_ar, if_sr, *old* USB stack network driver ..., Julian Elischer, (Sun Mar 15, 10:22 am)
Re: HEADS UP: IFF_NEEDSGIANT consumers to be disabled, rem ..., Robert Watson, (Fri Mar 20, 3:20 pm)