Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:37:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Vlad <marchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Marc UBM Bocklet <ubm@u-boot-man.de> Subject: Re: [BETA7-panic] sodealloc(): so_count 1 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041021053724.10079G-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <cd70c6810410201902323e7fa8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Vlad wrote: > just wanted to drop a quick update - after I've applied your patch, it's > been up for a couple of days now ... we don't have that bad traffic now, > so it's hard to judge did it really help it or not, but at least it > looks like it didn't hurt ;) > > would you drop me a note after this patch will be submitted to releng > 5.3 branch? Ok, it's now MFC'd. Please let me know if you see any recurrence of that problem (or other stack problems). Thanks! Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > thank you. > > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:24:06 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson > <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > I've merged a likely fix to the problem to HEAD as of a minute or two ago, > > which broadens the scope of the accept mutex to reduce the opportunity for > > races (it both expands the coverage to some additional reference > > operations, and also avoids dropping a lock to reorder). With this change > > in place, I'm no longer able to easily reproduce the problem -- I've had a > > couple of SMP boxes running for an hour or two trying without success. > > Previously I had reproduction time with just the right traffic down to a > > second or two. I'll merge the fix to RELENG_5 shortly for merge to > > RELENG_5_3 before 5.3 goes out the door. Obviously, any help in getting > > testing exposure for this change, as it comes very late in the release > > cycle, would be most welcome. A copy of the patch can be found at: > > > > http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/20041018-sofree-race-fix.diff > > > > A complete description can be found in the commit message. Thanks to > > everyone who has helped diagnosis and fix this! Hopefully we've got the > > right fix now, although obviously as the next few days of testing play > > out, we'll see. > > -- > Vlad >
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