Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:39:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: Giantless VFS. Message-ID: <20041130013802.J85758@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20041123013054.GA38804@peter.osted.lan> References: <20041120000743.G18094@mail.chesapeake.net> <41A1C3BD.4010903@fer.hr><20041123013054.GA38804@peter.osted.lan>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Peter Holm wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:46:50AM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > > Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > > > > > The short description: > > > > This patch removes Giant from the read(), write(), and fstat() syscalls, > > > > as well as page faults, and bufdone (io interrupts) when using FFS. It > > > > > > What is the plan re: RELENG_5? Will things like this (giantless vm, fs) > > > be merged into it? > > > > The giantless vm was already merged back to RELENG_5 and enabled on amd64, > > and i386. I hope to merge the giantless vfs back after a month or so of > > no problems on -current. I hope to commit it to -current this week. > > > > I haven't received any feedback from the list though. I hope people are > > testing it. Perhaps the silence indicates universal success? :-) > > > > Here's a problem I ran into during stress test: > > http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/jeff01.html > > Let me know if you need more gdb output. Thanks, this is the most serious bug of the couple that were reported. It indicates a possible race to flush a buffer. I'm still looking for this. What steps did you take to produce this panic? > > - Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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