Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:08:08 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>, scottl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) Message-ID: <20060403040807.GA58859@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44309D09.9040503@micom.mng.net> References: <442BBDED.4060804@micom.mng.net> <7579f7fb0603312322y46d87807t2e13af72bae45d96@mail.gmail.com> <44309D09.9040503@micom.mng.net>
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--zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. > Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte sectors:= =20 > 255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues. > I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did before= =20 > and the problem still was there. The mpt driver calls contigmalloc in a way that takes ages to run because it was poorly rewritten some time ago. Scottl partially fixed it on 7.0 (after the problem became much worse there - it was taking over 40 minutes instead of 4) but the change is not complete enough to back-port yet. Kris --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEMJ+nWry0BWjoQKURAtUmAJsG4H8FZ/Tu3hT8zuHiRl5oPwWEfgCg4BSU GrLuawC2X46zYxuU5FAH5eI= =NijD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--
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