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Date:      Sun, 30 May 2010 18:06:22 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: need better POSIX semaphore support
Message-ID:  <20100530150622.GJ83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20100530143034.GH43302@hades.panopticon>
References:  <20100530143034.GH43302@hades.panopticon>

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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 06:30:35PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
> Not long ago, POSIX semaphores support was enabled by default as it's
> becoming more widely used, by e.g. firefox. However, the support
> for these is still incomplete: we only have systemwide limit of 30
> semaphores, and that doesn't seem to be configurable neither online with
> sysctl, nor at boottime from loader.conf. I only was able to raise
> semaphore count by changing SEM_MAX in kernel sources.
>=20
> The real appliaction which needs more semaphores is lightspark
> (graphics/lightspark-devel) flash plugin - it uses ~40 sems for simple
> clips and ~250 for something like youtube videos.
>=20
> Until there more apps that require proper semaphore support, I guess
> we need to improve it asap. Given the amount of memory used by ksem,
> the least can be done is SEM_MAX bumped up to 5120 or so for
> non-embedded kernels. 5120 semaphores require just 644k of kernel
> memory (judging by vmstat), and is "ought to be enough for anybody".
> Another good thing would be to make it configurable at boot-time
> or even better in runtime.

HEAD contains different implementation. Apparently, it did not made
into stable/8 yet, so it will not appear in the 8.1.

Try this, I could try to squeeze it into 8.1.

diff --git a/sys/kern/posix4_mib.c b/sys/kern/posix4_mib.c
index 5242b31..41e28da 100644
--- a/sys/kern/posix4_mib.c
+++ b/sys/kern/posix4_mib.c
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ SYSCTL_DECL(_p1003_1b);
 #define P1B_SYSCTL(num, name)  \
 SYSCTL_INT(_p1003_1b, num, \
 	name, CTLFLAG_RD, facility + num - 1, 0, "");
+#define P1B_SYSCTL_RW(num, name)  \
+SYSCTL_INT(_p1003_1b, num, \
+	name, CTLFLAG_RW, facility + num - 1, 0, "");
=20
 #else
=20
@@ -65,6 +68,9 @@ SYSCTL_DECL(_kern_p1003_1b);
 #define P1B_SYSCTL(num, name)  \
 SYSCTL_INT(_kern_p1003_1b, OID_AUTO, \
 	name, CTLFLAG_RD, facility + num - 1, 0, "");
+#define P1B_SYSCTL_RW(num, name)  \
+SYSCTL_INT(_kern_p1003_1b, OID_AUTO, \
+	name, CTLFLAG_RW, facility + num - 1, 0, "");
 SYSCTL_NODE(_kern, OID_AUTO, p1003_1b, CTLFLAG_RW, 0, "P1003.1B");
=20
 #endif
@@ -91,7 +97,7 @@ P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_DELAYTIMER_MAX, delaytimer_max);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_MQ_OPEN_MAX, mq_open_max);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_PAGESIZE, pagesize);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_RTSIG_MAX, rtsig_max);
-P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_SEM_NSEMS_MAX, sem_nsems_max);
+P1B_SYSCTL_RW(CTL_P1003_1B_SEM_NSEMS_MAX, sem_nsems_max);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_SEM_VALUE_MAX, sem_value_max);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_SIGQUEUE_MAX, sigqueue_max);
 P1B_SYSCTL(CTL_P1003_1B_TIMER_MAX, timer_max);

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