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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:14:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch
Message-ID:  <20040824141238.K3016@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20040823134538.D3016@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
References:  <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040823134538.D3016@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Doug White wrote:
>
>> If you have a reasonably fast i386 or amd64 multiprocessor and/or
>> hyperthreading machine and are experiencing reproducible hangs during -j
>> buildwords and other highly parallel operations, please try this patch:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/smp_rv_mtx.patch
>
> Looks good here - several of my Xeon boxes that were subject to deadlocks 
> have survived -j4 buildworlds and other load situations with this patch.

OK, it seems I shouted out too early.  '-jX' buildworlds go fine, but my 
news server (heavy disk and network traffic) still locks up within one day 
of uptime.  It's a Dual Xeon with HTT, SCHED_4BSD, ADAPTIVE_GIANT, and no 
WITNESS or INVARIANTS.

cheers,
le

-- 
Lukas Ertl                         http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/
le@FreeBSD.org                     http://people.freebsd.org/~le/



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