Deferred if_start

2016-12-01 Thread Ryota Ozaki
Hi, This proposal introduces the deferred if_start framework for network device drivers. It provides a means to schedule if_start that will be executed in softint later. We need it for MP-ification of bpf because some drivers call if_start (or equivalent, say drvX_start) from hardware interrupt,

Re: ptrace(2) thoughts and design

2016-12-01 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 26.11.2016 04:31, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 22.11.2016 07:05, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> >> On 21.11.2016 05:23, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> [...] >>> My plan for the coming days: >>> >>> A. Add introductory man-pages for pthread_dbg, currently just for the >>> used functions in the existing

MP-safe pppoe(4)

2016-12-01 Thread Kengo NAKAHARA
Hi, My co-worker Shoichi YAMAGUCHI and I implement pppoe(4) MP-safe. # Nearly all parts is written by him, thanks :) Here is the patch. http://www.netbsd.org/~knakahara/pppoe-mpify/pppoe-mpify.patch At first, we try to use pserialize/psref, however pppoe would update softc members in softint