Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 12:56:27 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff Message-ID: <199806071756.MAA01060@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199806071737.TAA23667@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Jun 7, 98 07:37:04 pm"
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> In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote: > > > According to John S. Dyson: > > > > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks > > > > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet), > > > > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of > > > > TLB IPI's. The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming. > > > > > > Are these patches interesting to UP systems too ? If you have fixed that > > > many bugs, I guess yes... > > > > > Yes, they should be helpful. I have not beat on my system under UP like > > I have using the SMP version of the kernel, but I do know that there were > > windows in UP mode that this code will fix. Also, the code has been > > carefully scheduled to work (nearly) optimally on P5/P6 machines, so > > there should be a nearly unmeasurable improvement for UP even just with > > the swtch.s changes. > > Hmm, I just tried the sys*7b patches, and it hangs my dual P6/200 solid > very fast in a make world, it just locks up, and is totally cactus. > What size memory do you have? Do you have any hints? > > I saw that it turned on WC on the videocards mem (S3 ViRGE/DK 4M), and > that might be the problem, on the other hand the system wasn't running > X at the time, so that mem shouldn't be in use.... > That *might* be a problem, but I highly doubt it. > > Oh, I run with SLICE/DEVFS if that matters, else plain of the hour > -current sources... > There *might* be a latent bug in the DEVFS code??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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