on 24/01/2013 22:33 Jung-uk Kim said the following: > On 2013-01-24 13:49:07 -0500, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 24/01/2013 20:29 Jung-uk Kim said the following: >>> When utcache.c works, it works fairly well, actually. :-) > >> Well, my primary motivation for the patch is all the reports about >> mysterious panics that seem to involve the cache: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.acpi/7562 >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.acpi/7613 >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.acpi/7077 > >> There were a few more reports with the same theme. I hoped that >> using uma(9) instead of hand-rolled code would lead to better >> diagnostic and debugging cabilities. > > Hmm... I am not really sure local cache is to blame here. If you > really want to prove your theory, I think a simple modification to > utcache.c should do: > > Cache->LinkOffset = 8; > Cache->ListName = CacheName; > Cache->ObjectSize = ObjectSize; > - Cache->MaxDepth = MaxDepth; > + Cache->MaxDepth = 0; > > *ReturnCache = Cache; > return (AE_OK); > > This should effectively kill object caching.
That's a very simple trick, I wonder why I didn't think about it :-) Now I need to wait until one of the reporters resurfaces. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
