Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

[David Greenman]

>:>     There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... 
>:>     that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that
>:>     is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be 
>:>     recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. 
>:> 
>:>     The SMP patchset, in fact, requires that all kernel modules be 
>:>     recompiled due to the locks that were removed from the spl*() macros.

   I wonder if they really must be recompiled. It sounds like that would
improve performance, but is seems like gratuitous locking in this area
wouldn't necessarily cause things to break.

-DG

David Greenman
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