HEADS UP - massive kqueue changes now in HEAD, and also basic lvm/dm

Siju George sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 19:23:41 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>    Sam's select/poll infrastructure removal project is now in HEAD.  This
>    project reimplements the kernel's select() and poll() system calls using
>    per-thread kqueues and removes the original select/poll infrastructure.
>
>    We expect there to be some bugs so anyone running HEAD please report
>    issues where (primarily) programs wind up blocking on something and
>    not waking up when they should, or if the system crashes or deadlocks
>    when it did not before.
>

I have kept my Backup server from upgrading because of this. I am
running the development version. Is it ok to upgrade to current?

thanks :-)

--Siju






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