Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:46:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch Message-ID: <20040823134538.D3016@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Doug White wrote: > If you have a reasonably fast i386 or amd64 multiprocessor and/or > hyperthreading machine and are experiencing reproducible hangs during -j > buildwords and other highly parallel operations, please try this patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/smp_rv_mtx.patch Looks good here - several of my Xeon boxes that were subject to deadlocks have survived -j4 buildworlds and other load situations with this patch. Thanks! cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/
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