From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 22:45:52 2005 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 0762A16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:45:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD1943D1F for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:45:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0BMjhoT004401; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0BMjgUF004400; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:45:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050111224542.GA4269@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Kris Kennaway , Jeff Roberson , current@freebsd.org References: <20041213054007.Y9536@mail.chesapeake.net> <20050111213640.GA88223@hub.freebsd.org> <20050111215526.GA64909@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050111215526.GA64909@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Jeff Roberson cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP VFS Last call X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:45:52 -0000 On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:55:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:36:40PM +0000, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:46:32AM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > The SMP FFS/VFS patch has undergone several iterations and lots of serious > > > testing over the past few weeks. Many people, especially Peter Holm, have > > > sent me good bug reports. It's currently running on the port build > > > cluster and I have done extended load testing in small memory > > > configurations. What this means is, after I get back from vacation, it's > > > going to go into the tree. If you don't test it now, you will be in a few > > > weeks. :-) > > > > > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/smpffs.diff > > > > Hi Jeff, > > > > Can you please commit this ASAP? It seems to be working very well. > > I've reported two repeatable panics in the most recent version. > There's clearly some more work that needs to be done first. Jeff, Mentioned there was one outstanding bug that was reported to him. BUT that he could commit his patchset but still always depend on GIANT. That way we would get fixes to the bugs he found, and Jeff could still work on the remaining ?locking? issue. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)