Re: altq and multi-core processing

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

bschwart%bbn.com@localhost (Beverly Schwartz) writes:

>We've observed a series of unusual problems when we have enabled
>mutli-core with two processors.  We are using altq and pdf.

>Looking through the altq code, there appears to be *no* locking done.
>The only synchronization that appears to exist is calls to splnet.

altq is supposed to run under the giant lock where splXXX still works
even for multiple processors.