hi,

> > > >for your purpose, i think what you need are:
> > > >- change lowlevel intr handler (Xintr_* in the case of i386) not to
> > > >  take kernel_lock if the driver is marked as mp-safe.
> > > >- make the driver mp-safe.
> > > >	- change the driver to acquire per-device lock if needed.
> > > >	- change the driver to acquire kernel_lock
> > > >	  (or other fine-grained locks) when needed.
> > 
> > for someone interested..
> ...
> 
> yamt, is this patch a proposal for implementing mp-safe networking? or an 
> expiriment containing it?

my intention at that point was the latter.

YAMAMOTO Takashi