From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 18 11: 8:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AA91508C; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 12AdyL-000KEY-00; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:07:21 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:07:19 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Kirk McKusick Cc: Matthew Dillon , Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interesting results from softupdates/postmark test (was Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps) In-Reply-To: <200001020347.TAA14605@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Delta 1.40 to ffs_softdep.c (12/16/1999) fixes the `hanging > while holding a lock' problem. It should be propagated to the > 3.X branch. > > I have been working on a number of performance improvements to > soft updates that will hopefully assist in the postmark > benchmarks. Hopefully they will be ready to incorporate in > the next week or so. I'll send them to you (Matt) when I am > convinced that they are at least semantically correct to try > out. > > Kirk Well, I just cvsup'ed my copy of 3.4-stable, and I found that ffs_softdep.c is at: * * from: @(#)ffs_softdep.c 9.36 (McKusick) 5/6/99 * $FreeBSD: src/sys/contrib/softupdates/ffs_softdep.c,v 1.34.2.3 1999/08/29 16:22:08 peter Exp $ */ So I guess, ffs_softdep.c in -stable doesn't have the patch you did in December, because there have been no commits since August. Is anyone able to commit this change back to -stable? Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message