core dumps on leaf

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Mon Jan 17 11:52:11 PST 2005


On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:52:32PM -0800, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
: We'll probably have to do a RCU-like scheme where the ifnet structure
: is detached, a token (IBM ring token) is sent around to all the
: processing threads, and when it returns to the sender, then the ifnet
: structure is deallocated.  I was planning to do this eventually, but
: haven't gotten there yet.

Why does this problem not appear under FreeBSD?  Is it because of the
multi-threaded kernel?


Jonathon
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