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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:26:18 +0100
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TEST:  phk_bufwork patchfile
Message-ID:  <20041115222618.GB579@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <38677.1100390114@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <38677.1100390114@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:55:14AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> I have uploaded a snapshot patch of my p4 phk_bufwork branch relative
> to -current as of right now:
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> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/phk_bufwork20041113.patch
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> The patch contains four changes which I need help to test before
> it goes into -current.
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> Select(2)/Poll(2) runs giant free on network/fifos.
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> 	Could be tested on a busy server (web/mail/etc).
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> Vnode bypass for devices (same code as in -current, only not disabled)
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> 	Could be tested with database accessing raw disk partition,
> 	fsck of large filesystems etc etc.
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> 	Please test HW crypto support if at all possible.
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> Vnode bypass for fifos.
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> 	Test with anything using fifos (such as make -j N :-)
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> VOP_BMAP backing vnode -> backing bufobj
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> 	UFS/FFS file activity will test this.
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> Any and all benchmarking will be very welcome!
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I've been running this on my desktop for two days now with no ill
effects.  At the moment I don't have time for benchmarking though.

- Christian

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