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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:36:00 +0300
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 13.0 RC4 might be delayed
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:37 AM David G Lawrence via freebsd-current <
freebsd-current@freebsd.org> wrote:

> > > On 27/03/21 06:04, David G Lawrence via freebsd-current wrote:
> > >>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:01 PM Graham Perrin <
> grahamperrin@gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> On 26/03/2021 03:40, The Doctor via freebsd-current wrote:
> > >>>>> ??? if people are having issues with ports like ???
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If I'm not mistaken:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> * 13.0-RC3 seems to be troublesome, as a guest machine, with
> > >>>> emulators/virtualbox-ose 6.1.18 as the host
> > >>>>
> > >>>> * no such trouble with 12.0-RELEASE-p5 as a guest.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I hope to refine the bug report this weekend.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Had nothing but frequent guest lockups on 6.1.18 with my Win7
> system.
> > >>> That
> > >>> was right after 6.1.18 was put into ports. Fell back to legacy (v5)
> and
> > >>> will try again shortly to see if it's any better.
> > >>
> > >> Kevin,
> > >>
> > >> ?????? Make sure you have these options in your /etc/sysctl.conf :
> > >>
> > >> vfs.aio.max_buf_aio=8192
> > >> vfs.aio.max_aio_queue_per_proc=65536
> > >> vfs.aio.max_aio_per_proc=8192
> > >> vfs.aio.max_aio_queue=65536
> > >>
> > >> ?????? ...otherwise the guest I/O will random hang in VirtualBox.
> This
> > >> issue was
> > >> mitigated in a late 5.x VirtualBox by patching to not use AIO, but
> the
> > >> issue
> > >> came back in 6.x when that patch wasn't carried forward.
> > >
> > > Sorry I lost that patch. Can you point me to the patch? Maybe it can
> be
> > > easily ported.
> > >
> >
> > I found the relevant commit. Please give me some time for testing and
> > I'll put this patch back in the tree.
>
>    If you're going to put that patch back in, then AIO should probably be
> made an option in the port config, as shutting AIO off by default will
> have a significant performance impact. Without AIO, all guest IO will
> be become synchronous.
>

Are you sure about that? Without AIO, VBox uses a generic POSIX backend,
which is based on pthread, I think.



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