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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:37:40 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org>, David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2
Message-ID:  <20060929213740.GA37735@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060929212155.GB56501@nowhere>
References:  <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927152824.GJ22229@e-Gitt.NET> <20060927155553.GB14563@icarus.home.lan> <20060927155904.GM22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451AA7B1.5080202@samsco.org> <20060929072741.GH14975@tnn.dglawrence.com> <20060929212155.GB56501@nowhere>

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
> Doesn't seem to have any effect for me (other than high sys% times).
> qemu is really good at provoking my em0 to timeout.

What might be useful for someone who can provoke this, is to configure
your kernel with MUTEX_PROFILING, then do the following:

sysctl debug.mutex.prof.enable=1
start_your_test_case
sysctl debug.mutex.prof.enable=0

Then:

sysctl debug.mutex.prof.stats > stats.out

and provide access to that file.

This will help to show whether something is causing Giant starvation.

Kris

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