Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:39:18 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Giantless VFS. Message-ID: <20041122193917.GA85040@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200411221827.iAMIRaq4009545@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <3457D9D4-3C93-11D9-BAB4-000D936BE398@bis.midco.net> <200411221827.iAMIRaq4009545@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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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
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