RE: socket buffers and condition variables

On 28-May-2002 Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
>   > Reduce contention upon locking a socket buffer by replacing tsleep() and
>   > wakeup() with a condvar.
> 
> I'd prefer if we waited until we had the networking stack all locked up
> before measuring and deciding that there is enough contention on socket
> buffers to warrant this change.

I don't really see how this change avoids contention anyways.

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