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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 1995 08:19:29 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa icu.s
Message-ID:  <199502202119.IAA31791@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>  Fix restoring cpl in the swi_ast_phantom case.  The system sometimes
>>  returned to user mode without enabling ASTs.  The problem fixed itself

>   Hmmm...this sounds like the same bug that is (was?) causing Larry McVoy's
>bw_tcp benchmark to 1) hang, and 2) after interrupting it the process would
>hang in the kernel bouncing between the low level AST processing and the upper
>layer TCP processing code. This didn't use to happen a few months ago - was
>something changed to cause this?

Not that I know of.  The bug is very old - it is in 1.1.5 according to
the sources.  lmbench seemed OK (except it doesn't automatically scale
to < 32MB memory) when I ran it here on Nov 29.

Bruce



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