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Commit a message to UPDATING indicating that during network stack locking

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merges, debug.mpsafenet will no longer be safe to use, and that it should
be turned off (which is the default).  I will commit a follow-up message
to UPDATING (and post to freebsd-current) when it's safe to turn it on,
with a description of under what circumstances it is safe to use.
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Robert Watson 2004-03-22 16:37:32 +00:00
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@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
20040322:
The debug.mpsafenet tunable controls whether the kernel Giant
lock is held across the lower levels of the network stack, and
by default is turned off. In the few days following 20040322,
the behavior of debug.mpsafenet will change such that this
tunable controls Giant over all levels of the network stack.
If you are currently setting debug.mpsafenet to 1, you should
set it back to 0 (the default) again during the change-over.
An additional note will be added to UPDATING when sufficient
locking is merged to permit this to take place.
20040310:
The FreeBSD/sparc64 platform is changing time_t from 32-bits to
64-bits. This is a very major incompatible change, so people