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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:17:30 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch
Message-ID:  <p0611040ebd4fe0bd637c@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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At 12:05 PM -0700 8/22/04, Doug White wrote:
>Hey folks,  [...]   please try this patch:
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/smp_rv_mtx.patch
>
>This patch avoids a deadlock between the smp_rendezvous()
>mechanism and TLB shootdowns via pmap by forcing them to
>share a mutex.

I have completed a series of buildworlds with -j3 to -j10 with
no problem.  I then started up a "folding at home" client, and
repeated the buildworlds.  No panics, but in the second set I
did have one buildworld (-j9) which failed with four processes
apparently getting a "*** Signal 6".  I am not sure what that
was about. Note that all these builds were done with a `make'
that was compiled to USE_KQUEUE , so maybe that's where the
Signal's came from.  In any case, the machine is still running
fine, even after that heavy pounding.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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