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$NetBSD: TODO.smpnet,v 1.1 2017/01/24 09:05:27 ozaki-r Exp $

Non MP-safe components
======================

 - bpf
 - To be listed more...

bpf
===

MP-ification of bpf requires all of bpf_mtap* are called in normal LWP context
or softint context, i.e., not in hardware interrupt context.  For Tx, all
bpf_mtap satisfy the requrement.  For Rx, most of bpf_mtap are called in softint.
Unfortunately some bpf_mtap on Rx are still called in hardware interrupt context.

This is the list of the functions that have such bpf_mtap:

 - sca_frame_process() @ sys/dev/ic/hd64570.c
 - en_intr() @ sys/dev/ic/midway.c
 - rxintr_cleanup() and txintr_cleanup() @ sys/dev/pci/if_lmc.c
 - ipr_rx_data_rdy() @ sys/netisdn/i4b_ipr.c

Ideally we should make the functions run in softint somehow, but we don't have
actual devices, no time (or interest/love) to work on the task, so instead we
provide a deferred bpf_mtap mechanism that forcibly runs bpf_mtap in softint
context.  It's a workaround and once the functions run in softint, we should use
the original bpf_mtap again.