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Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while 
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mjacob@feral.com said:
> Duh. There had been race conditions in the past which caused all of us
> HBA writers to in fact start swalloing things like QFULL and
> maintaining internal queues. 

That was true of 2.2, 2.3 (and I think early 2.4) but it isn't true of late 
2.4 and 2.5

James


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