Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:15:32 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: mdf@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large machine test ideas Message-ID: <201108291415.32605.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF-QHFW=aU3=iKE9WMg6%2BD6eP9OXth=c0AidBc140ykmAPD2zg@mail.gmail.com> References: <j38lj5$s9a$1@dough.gmane.org> <CAMBSHm_Sv_KZUs4h-tDGAZCq8s2qo_bMmfZxLbVkcH1=_Wu0OQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF-QHFW=aU3=iKE9WMg6%2BD6eP9OXth=c0AidBc140ykmAPD2zg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday, August 29, 2011 1:28:37 pm Ivan Voras wrote: > On 29 August 2011 18:33, <mdf@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 26/08/2011 19:44, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> ... > >>> > >>>> I think that I'll need a 9-CURRENT snapshot on it to run all 128 CPUs, > >>>> right? > >>> > >>> A 9.0-BETA1 snapshot, yes. > >> > >> Well, I'll leave it another half an hour but the 9.9-beta1 shapshot > >> froze on boot after showing a "SRAT: No CPU found for memory domain 4". > > > > This message implies the memory affinity information coming from ACPI > > is either non-sensical, or you have an unexpected physical setup where > > there really are CPUs with no memory in the local sockets. > > > > You should be able to boot with something like hint.srat.0="disabled" > > at the boot loader prompt. > > Unfortunately, neither the memtest or the srat disabling tunables > worked (I also tried disabling srat.4). > > My time with the machine is over, so I can't do more testing. The hint to set would be 'hint.srat.0.disabled=1'. However, the SRAT code just ignores the table when it encounters an issue like this, it doesn't hang. Something else later in the boot must have hung. -- John Baldwin
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