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Update todo list based on today's re@ concall.

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<tr>
<td>Deadlock under heavy network load on systems with more than 4 CPUs</td>
<td>&status.new;</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;</td>
<td>A deadlock of unknown origin has started to appear on systems with
4 or more real CPUs when under heavy TCP load.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>IPFilter mpsafe fixes</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;</td>
<td>IPFilter is currently not mpsafe but doesn't run with Giant.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Required features for 5.4-RELEASE</h3>
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<td>Avoid the need for a disc1-gnome/disc1-kde as was done for 4.11</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Entropy harvesting optimizations</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;, &a.markm;</td>
<td>Entropy harvesting in the interrupt and incoming packet paths
currently involves a large number of mutex operations. In order to
improve performance, it is desirable to reduce the number of mutex
operations substantially. Improvements in the harvesting locking
scheme have been merged to 6.x, but are considered too risky at this
stage to be merged to 5.x until after 5.3.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>File descriptor locking</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.jeff;</td>
<td>File descriptor locking needs to be merged back from HEAD.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>busdma fixes</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
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<td>More work is needed on busdma to fix bounce buffer problems.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ATAPI CDROMs in PIO mode during install</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.jhb;</td>
<td>People are having difficulties with various ATAPI CDROMs on
various architectures. We need to either do all installs
in PIO mode or provide a boot menu method of selecting it.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Desired features for 5.4-RELEASE</h3>
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such would be very helpful on FreeBSD.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Entropy harvesting optimizations</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;, &a.markm;</td>
<td>Entropy harvesting in the interrupt and incoming packet paths
currently involves a large number of mutex operations. In order to
improve performance, it is desirable to reduce the number of mutex
operations substantially. Improvements in the harvesting locking
scheme have been merged to 6.x, but are considered too risky at this
stage to be merged to 5.x until after 5.3.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KAME IPSEC without the Giant Lock</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
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<th>Description</th>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>File descriptor locking</td>
<td>&status.done;</td>
<td>&a.jeff;</td>
<td>File descriptor locking needs to be merged back from HEAD.</td>
</tr>
</table>