From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 15 14:16:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D286F9; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x233.google.com (mail-oa0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1C6D1F; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id i4so15436641oah.38 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:16:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=OyLeYY4lNUUHgDcIcmRpKfKgVdUpoa9IL31846Qh2xk=; b=tZAceOkF3XqI2u6mbFVSPBLFSvBU3Foy4gQBD//JpnUS31oP/x8nCPmuBfbbRc0sdg TYazE7xi12sOdnql9zshwQSoM1FaB1BkyasZId4QvuTfc6QN+0h/ftCOavmZL9GzuCNS IzrTNgWL2dnGLH533dFUzQ1lEfcm4TxJzMJ+Hl8bpyFH9GtfrKZr1W+oR9nrgaYIh+t3 vSYea5Iml2dt6JDp1sTe8eBAwmOIZQA+k+7thWzezU8J6iiSP34buhdmb5L5lFAO222W TsTjdzx/l64mS2jEouGaPwyOq1hUI9OTd9sR/5rupsYUKYkcHV3v7E4FCi4zWtMil2dh ZM/g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.50.200 with SMTP id e8mr44189007obo.35.1373897817075; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.90.197 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:16:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130715141300.GA1986@glenbarber.us> References: <51D90B9B.9080209@ixsystems.com> <51D92826.1070707@freebsd.org> <51E1061F.3050804@ixsystems.com> <51E398F3.40008@freebsd.org> <51E3EEAA.3040106@freebsd.org> <51E3EFA8.1050606@ixsystems.com> <20130715141300.GA1986@glenbarber.us> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:16:56 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2 From: Outback Dingo To: Glen Barber Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Andre Oppermann , stable@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:16:58 -0000 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > >On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > >>On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >>>Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the > > >>>following configurations: > > >>> > > >>>6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. > > >> > > >>As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light > > >>the MFC. > > > > > >RE has rejected the MFC out of fears for unexpected regressions. > > > > > > > That is unfortunate. I guess re@ doesn't understand that FreeBSD > > 9.2 will be unusable out of the box for doing 10gigE for more than a > > few microseconds. > > > > Can we not just do my original patch that has the check for 64bit > > pointers before unscaling maxusers? That would be dirt simple and > > just work with minimal risk. > > > > IMHO, this is considered a new feature, and not a critical bug fix. re@ > asked from the start of the code slush to avoid new features, and at > this point, it is too late. It is not worth introducing possible > regressions, which will only delay the 9.2-RELEASE. > Its kinda sad that it wount be MFC'd though I understand, it does help 10Gbe environments Id give it a vote, and its perceived to have possible regressions, though it might need more testing other then a handful of users..... we can always patch........ until its MFCd > > Glen > >