Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:12:39 +0200 From: "Konstantin Prokazoff" <kprokazov@svr.kiev.ua> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: poll()/select() Message-ID: <0d8401c5ef4d$450fc9b0$0c02010a@svr012> References: <3.0.1.32.20051121044201.00aa1490@pop.redshift.com> <0bb401c5ee9d$79ac2c50$0c02010a@svr012> <200511211038.26937.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Now, have checking non-FAST handler. Have some interest moments, such as
error codes, like:
Short write: 0/15 (Programming error)
Write to 137 (fdno) failed: Programming error
Maybe server becomes overloaded? (4xE1, Xeon 3G)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Konstantin Prokazoff" <kprokazov@svr.kiev.ua>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: poll()/select()
> On Monday 21 November 2005 08:14 am, Konstantin Prokazoff wrote:
> > Thanks for comment,
> >
> > I think, after kernel inspection, problem (maybe) in preemption.
While
> > syscall to poll or select holds sellock, and if another thread (process)
> > tries to syscall or we have taken interrupt (where handler use
> > selrecord/selwakeup too), kernel will deadlock.
> > I have this situation cause to INTR_FAST interrupt handler in device
> > driver for Digium's PCI board, which provides 4 T1/E1 interfaces.
Problem
> > 100% repetitive.
> > Another way to avoid such deadlock - provide different
kthread/ithreads
> > for select/poll mechanism.
>
> You can't call selwakeup() from an INTR_FAST handler. Try removing
INTR_FAST
> and see if it fixes your issue. If you want to use INTR_FAST, then
realize
> that you can only use spin mutexes in your handler, and that any more
> complicated work like selwakeup() that uses regular mutexes will have to
be
> deferred either by using a swi handler or dispatching a task to the Fast
> taskqueue.
>
> --
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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