Re: HEADS UP - Major network changes going in, HEAD instability

[elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>    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