Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:53:24 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch Message-ID: <20040826145324.GA40029@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:05:39PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > If you have a reasonably fast i386 or amd64 multiprocessor and/or > hyperthreading machine and are experiencing reproducible hangs during -j > buildwords and other highly parallel operations, please try this patch: Just a follow-up to my off-list message and another data point, with this patch I no longer get deadlocks, however I now get random data corruption. The first time, it managed to complete the installworld and I didn't notice anything until trying to portupgrade Xorg failed. It turns out that the installed ranlib coredumped when run, but the one in /usr/obj worked fine. After that I was not able to successfully buildworld again. Every time one of the source files would inevitably end up corrupted with blocks of garbage, even after removing /usr/src entirely and re-cvsupping. Disabling the second processor or falling back to an older kernel (one from before the IPI hangs started) both fix the problem. Craighome | help
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