Subject: Re: splx() optimization [was Re: SMP re-eetrancy in "bottom half" drivers]
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/08/2005 12:02:07
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:04:55AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> [...]
> 
> If we de-couple fixing all "higher" IPLs from fixing the networking code, 
> Jonathan can start working on fixing the networking stack. Someone else 
> could start on either the disk or the vm systems in too. Even if not, we 
> still have two developers working on SMP-safe interrupt handling rather 
> than one now....

If there's a way to make only parts of the kernel SMP-safe, I'd be interested
in working on disks subsystems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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