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Re: GSoC progress report



On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 3:31 PM David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I don't remember anything about sc_mtx but the spl-based
> "synchronization" that I used in the early 2000s should go away.  If it
> works at all, I believe it relies either on the kernel "big lock" or
> some other lock (softnet mutex?) to keep threads from stepping on each
> other, especially on an MP machine.
>
> David

Of course you would know what code is necessary wrt. hardware
(although the new wifi stack changes a lot).

Jeandre


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