> We may have to delay the release by ~2 weeks or so due to these > changes. What began as a fix for some TCP corruption turned into > some major MPSAFE work. It turns out that portions of the networking > path which relied on the giant lock can no longer do so because so > much of the networking path no longer uses giant. And with this set > of patches virtually none of the networking path will use giant.
Woohoo. This will be a milestone release in regards to SMP/SMT. Petr
