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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:51:56 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, "mav >> Alexander Motin" <mav@ixsystems.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r269404 - head/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys
Message-ID:  <BBEAFAEA-DADA-4741-9AF2-10B1FF3BC17D@scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <53DC96E9.9020805@delphij.net>
References:  <201408012233.s71MXNIx051919@svn.freebsd.org> <57D656EF-5D6B-428B-9DCE-7FA360B1407F@scsiguy.com> <53DC96E9.9020805@delphij.net>

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On Aug 2, 2014, at 1:44 AM, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 8/1/14 8:59 PM, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > On Aug 1, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Author: delphij Date: Fri Aug  1 22:33:23 2014 New Revision:
> >> 269404 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269404
> >>
> >> Log: Split gethrtime() and gethrtime_waitfree() and make the
> >> former use nanouptime() instead of getnanouptime().
> >> nanouptime(9) provides more precise result at expense of being
> >> slower.
> >>
> >> In r269223, gethrtime() is used as creation time of dbuf, which
> >> in turn acts as portion of lookup key to maintain AVL invariant
> >> where there can not be duplicate items.  Before this change,
> >> gethrtime() have preferred better execution time by sacrificing
> >> precision, which may lead to panic on busy systems with:
> >>
> >> panic: avl_find() succeeded inside avl_add()
> >
> > I don’t believe that r269223 requires a temporal ordering of the
> > dbufs in the AVL, just unique entries.  So why use an expensive
> > operation like getting high resolution time?  Can’t we just use a
> > PCPU counter and tag the dbufs with "CPU# << 48 | PCPU_counter”?
> 
> What do you think about D521?  (Alexander suggested similar
> implementation).
> 
> https://phabric.freebsd.org/D521
> 
> Cheers,

Seems reasonable to me.

—
Justin


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