Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:54:05 -0800 From: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waiting for bufdaemon Message-ID: <8a549830a3087998c1e2f80a5fb58199@bsdforge.com> In-Reply-To: <20210306.083323.1112779300812727243.yasu@utahime.org> References: <20210128.050242.1986722766748729591.yasu@utahime.org> <20210305.160311.867123118349124334.yasu@utahime.org> <YEKYDlPuvn6TL4xs@kib.kiev.ua> <20210306.083323.1112779300812727243.yasu@utahime.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2021-03-05 15:33, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: > From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Waiting for bufdaemon > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 22:43:58 +0200 > >> My belief is that this commit helps more users than it hurts. Namely, >> the VMWare and KVM users, which are majority, use fast timecounter, >> comparing to the more niche hypervisors like VirtualBox. >> >> For you, a simple but manual workaround, setting the timecounter to >> ACPI (?) or might be HPET, with a loader tunable, should do it. > > Then please let me know the name of it. > > I have experienced same situation several time. That is, I faced a > problem and asked for it on ML. Then I was told to try some tunable. > So I thought there may be tunable that can be used as workaround in > this case. But for those who isn't familiar with kernel internal, it > it quite hard to find it without knowing its name. If all tunable were > listed with brief explanation in one document, then I saw it and could > pick up possible candidates. Not exactly what you're asking for. But sysctl sysctl(3) and loader(8) will provide some good clues. HTH --Chris > But actually they are documented > separately among many man pages. So the first difficulty is to find > man page in which possible tunable may be explained. If the problem is > releted to some device, it is most hopeful to check its man page. But > in this case, even after reading the commit message, I had no idea > which man page to check. > > --- > Yasuhiro Kimura > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?8a549830a3087998c1e2f80a5fb58199>