On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:30:01AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: J> You can find the patch for 8.x at J> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/if_addr_rwlock.patch Just my two pennies: for head/ patching if ip_carp.c should be straightforward: 1) Using W in carp_alloc_if() and carp_free_if(). 2) Using R everywhere else. -- Totus tuus, Glebius.