At Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:31:23 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson wrote: > Regarding IPv6: significant parts of IPv6 are safe in an MPSAFE > environment, but not very well tested -- I've had about three or four > minor but significant (fail stop) bugs to correct in the last two weeks. > I don't doubt more are waiting. Areas that still require substantial > attention in locking include the IPv6 forwarding path, ip6fw, and > multicast discovery/routing. If you're using IPv6 on a local system > largely for services like TCP consumption and serving, you are probably > OK, but might encounter fail stop (assertion failure) scenarios that > require some debugging. So far, these problems have generally been > resolved within 48 hours of the problem being reported. > > So if you're willing to do a bit of testing, MPSAFE operation is probably > ready for you, and additional IPv6 testing is something I'd like to see > more of, as I don't have easy access to a rich IPv6 environment. Nice to hear. I'll start testing with mpsafenet=1 with usual workload from Monday (sitting at console). # I don't care if my box panics. :-) -- Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama_at_imgsrc.co.jp> // IMG SRC, Inc. <kuriyama_at_FreeBSD.org> // FreeBSD ProjectReceived on Sat Sep 04 2004 - 07:50:01 UTC
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