From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 9 18:55:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7134637B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAA2seH55309; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14859.23664.641868.642173@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:55:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Does your Alpha run a SMPng kernel? Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Nov-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > David O'Brien writes: > > There is some debate as to which machines can run the latest SMPng > > kernel so I'd like to take a poll. If you can, please CVSup and then > > build a GENERIC -current kernel and see if it boots. > > Depends on what you mean by latest. If you mean post-ithreads, then > I've booted the following with SMPng > > API UP1000 > Compaq XP1000 (I'd expect XP900/DS10/DS20/DP264 to also work) > DEC AlphaStation 500/266 > DEC DPW433a (Miata GL) > > As of last week, there were stil massive stability problems. > Eg, my Miata-GL cannot make it through an installworld w/o > locking up. (or at least couldn't last week). > Heck, it cannot even reinstall the linux_base port reliably. Have any clues as to where it is hanging? One thing that may help is that I have finally gotten the kernel cleaned up so that it can run with WITNESS enabled. In fact, I'm using an MP safe 'psm' driver with WITNESS enabled as I type this. Having WITNESS on will help find some deadlocks that may hang machines. I need to clean up the patches and untangle them from the 4-5 other patchsets on here and then test it on SMP x86 and alpha, but hopefully I can commit it next week some time. > Drew -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message