Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:05:05 +1100 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ef rotten Message-ID: <45660D01.9000102@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <20061123115046.S50054@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061123114254.GO1841@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20061123115046.S50054@fledge.watson.org>
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On 23/11/2006 10:55 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >> When trying to kldload if_ef (on yesterday CURRENT/amd64, with WITNESS >> and almost all debugging enabled), I got a lot of "malloc(M_WAITOK) of >> "XXX", forcing M_NOWAIT with the following non-sleepable locks held: >> ... ifnet ..." >> >> Is it rotten ? (No, I do not use it, just noted it when doing some >> other testing work). > > There are three general classes of problems with if_ef: ... If you are looking for any testers of if_ef-related work, we use it quite heavily (with nwfs and IPX), although my -CURRENT test machine is currently in pieces, so I haven't done any testing on -CURRENT just at the moment! If you need any additional information from a in-use environment, patches to be tested, etc, I'll volunteer... --Antony
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