From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 19:39:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5BE16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8102243D41 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) iAMJdIC7085069; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost)iAMJdI1L085068; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:39:18 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20041122193917.GA85040@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <3457D9D4-3C93-11D9-BAB4-000D936BE398@bis.midco.net> <200411221827.iAMIRaq4009545@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411221827.iAMIRaq4009545@peedub.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: jroberson@chesapeake.net cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Giantless VFS. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:39:20 -0000 On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:27:36PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Peter Schultz writes: > > On Nov 22, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > > >> I haven't received any feedback from the list though. I hope people > > >> are > > >> testing it. Perhaps the silence indicates universal success? :-) > > > > > > Would it be interesting to try your patch on a UP system ? To > > > anticipate an hypotetical affirmative answer, I'm already recompiling > > > my > > > UP kernel with it. > > > > > > > > Reducing contention over the kernel is beneficial for any number of > > processors. > > > > With a tree just updated per cvsup about 30 minutes ago: > > root:peedub:sys:bash:8> patch < ~/freebsd/smpffs.diff > root:peedub:sys:bash:7> find . -type f -name \*.rej | xargs ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 539 Nov 22 19:22 ./kern/init_sysent.c.rej > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 522 Nov 22 19:22 ./kern/syscalls.c.rej > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 524 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/syscall.h.rej > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 557 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/syscall.mk.rej > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 531 Nov 22 19:22 ./sys/sysproto.h.rej > > :-( > > I have the latest (only?) vesion of the patch. > The rejected portions do not effect the patch. It appears to be differences in the expansion of $FreeBSD$. I've been running a kernel with this patch on a UP system. It has exhibited no problems during a "make -j 2 buildworld", a re-installation of all ports on the system, and a build and make check of the GCC cvs source tree. -- Steve