From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 18:05:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA4B1065672 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 18:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B13B8FC12 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 18:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from scollay.m5p.com (time.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f6]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4KI5A6P052058 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 14:05:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <4DD6AD56.3080608@m5p.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:05:10 -0400 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110503 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <1340366482.609480.1305845624994.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <1340366482.609480.1305845624994.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7]); Fri, 20 May 2011 14:05:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh "config KERNEL" etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:05:16 -0000 On 05/19/11 18:53, Rick Macklem wrote: >> On 05/14/11 20:05, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just a heads up that after a commit going into stable/8 in a few >>> minutes, you'll need to do a fresh kernel build, starting at >>> "config GENERIC", including rebuilding the NFS related modules. >>> >>> rick >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> Sensational! With this update, I finally get NFS client performance >> as good as (or better than) 7.x, and I have a warm, fuzzy feeling >> about 8.x at last. (Except for SCHED_ULE, which gives terrible >> performance on a single-core machine with a compute-bound process >> running in the background.) Thanks! -- George Mitchell >> > There's a weird (and you need to have a weird sense of humour to > enjoy it) flick called "Stranger than Paradise". > > Anyhow, the above sounds like good news, although the commit it > was related to should have had no effect on perf, from what I can > see. > > Assuming that you are using the regular 8.n client (and not the new > one), there have been some commits related to krpc bugs that could have > fixed cases which would have caused poor perf., although all of those > (except one where a client would hang on a TCP reconnect attempt) are in > 8.2. > > So, happy to hear it works for you now, but have no idea why;-) rick Full disclosure: I was upgrading from 8.2-PRERELEASE, so it might well have been some earlier change instead of this one. -- George > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >