On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: +> I'm committing changes to mark various network drivers' interrupt handlers +> MPSAFE. To insure folks have a way to backout if they hit problems I've also +> added a tunable that lets you disable this w/o rebuilding your kernel. By +> default all network drivers that register an interrupt handler INTR_MPSAFE +> are setup to run their ISR w/o Giant. If you want to defeat this w/o +> changing the code you can set +> +> debug.mpsafenet=0 +> +> from the loader when booting and the MPSAFE bit will automatically be removed. +> I plan to use this to also control forthcoming changes for registering MPSAFE +> netisrs. +> +> The following drivers are marked MPSAFE: +> +> ath, em, ep, fxp, sn, wi, sis +> +> I've got changes coming for bge. Other drivers probably can be marked MPSAFE +> but I'm only doing it for those drivers that I can test.
Because there is so many drivers, maybe you could prepare some regression tests designed to check changed things. This will allow people to test your changes - it is not very easy now if we don't know what we're looking for exactly PLUS those drivers aren't marked MPSAFE by default. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator http://garage.freebsd.pl Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://cerber.sourceforge.net
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