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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:29:47 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Jason Wolfe <nitroboost@gmail.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] kern/kern_timeout.c rewrite in progress
Message-ID:  <54BE03EB.2070604@selasky.org>
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On 01/17/15 23:18, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 01/17/15 20:11, Jason Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> HPS,
>>
>> Just to give a quick status update, this patch has most certainly
>> resolved our spin lock held too long panics on stable/10.
>>
>> Thank you to JHB for spending some time digging into the issue and
>> leading us to td_slpcallout as the culprit, and HPS for your rewrite.
>> I had heard rumors of other being affected by similar issues, so this
>> seems like a fine candidate for an MFC if possible.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> I'm glad to hear that my patch has resolved your issue and I'm happy we
> now have a more stable system.
>
> It was actually a co-worker at work which wrote some bad code which I
> started debugging which then lead me to look at the callout subsystem.
> One bug kills the other ;-)
>
> I'm planning a MFC to 10-stable - yes, and will possibly add the
> _callout_stop_safe() function to not break binary compatibility with
> existing drivers as part of the MFC.
>
> --HPS

Hi,

Here is a followup patch for the TCP stack like I mentioned in the 
beginning of the work done on the callout subsystem:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1563

If someone has a setup for massive TCP testing please give it a spin.

Thank you!

--HPS




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