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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:47:36 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Jason Wolfe <nitroboost@gmail.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] kern/kern_timeout.c rewrite in progress
Message-ID:  <20150120104736.GA78629@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <54BE03EB.2070604@selasky.org>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:29:47AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> 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.

I have on 10.1 (with applied r261906).




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