Re: SMP deadlock during multi-user mode transition after r204866

2010-03-12 Thread David Wolfskill
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:04:40AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: My build machine (dmesg attached) is a dual CPU, single-core box; my laptop is a single CPU, single-core box. I track head on each daily; while the build machine has been locking up during the transition to multi-user mode since

Re: SMP kernel panic with traceback

2003-09-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: I'm getting crashes when trying to debug mozilla (under KSE). The panic message is panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown with interrupts already disabled. Attached is the trace. Any ideas? % (kgdb) bt % #0 doadump () at

Re: SMP kernel panic with traceback

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: I'm getting crashes when trying to debug mozilla (under KSE). The panic message is panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown with interrupts already disabled. Attached is the trace. Any ideas?

Re: SMP kernel panic with traceback

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: I'm getting crashes when trying to debug mozilla (under KSE). The panic message is panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown with interrupts already disabled. Attached is the trace. Any ideas?

Re: smp reboot with atang

2003-09-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Petri Helenius wrote: The problem of not being able to reboot without a panic seems to persist on late current with ATAng and SMP. The below doesn't say much actually, but I can reboot to my hearts content on my SMP box here with no problems. What else do you have in that kernel ?

Re: smp reboot with atang

2003-09-16 Thread Petri Helenius
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Petri Helenius wrote: The problem of not being able to reboot without a panic seems to persist on late current with ATAng and SMP. The below doesn't say much actually, but I can reboot to my hearts content on my SMP box here with no problems. What else do you

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:16 PM -0400 8/11/03, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. I run 5.x on a dual-Althon 2000 machine. I have no idea

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Evan Dower
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: smp in 5.1 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:40:21 -0400 (EDT) I guess I'll chime in as well... I have a Dual Athlon 2000+ MP here and it's running like a charm with SCHED_4BSD. Andy Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant Silicon Landmark, LLC

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
PM To: Andy Farkas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eriq Lamar Subject: Re: smp in 5.1 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am

Re: smp in 5.1

2003-08-12 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using mp's but not sure which version would be better. Scheduling in 5.1 is broken (sched_ule doesn't even

RE: smp in 5.1

2003-08-11 Thread derwood
, August 11, 2003 7:10 PM To: Andy Farkas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eriq Lamar Subject: Re: smp in 5.1 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote: Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could someone tell what

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-21 Thread Harti Brandt
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: BM BMOn Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:31:26PM +0200, Lara Harti Brandt wrote: BM[...] BM Well the problem is, that nothing is starved. I have an idle machine and BM a zone that I have limited to 60 or so items. When allocating the 2nd BM item I get block on

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-21 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:03:00AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: BM BMOn Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:31:26PM +0200, Lara Harti Brandt wrote: BM[...] BM Well the problem is, that nothing is starved. I have an idle machine and BM a zone that I have

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-21 Thread Harti Brandt
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: BM BMOn Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:03:00AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: BM On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: BM BM BM BM BMOn Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:31:26PM +0200, Lara Harti Brandt wrote: BM BM[...] BM BM Well the problem is, that nothing is

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-21 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:47:54PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: [...] BM It sounds to me like your example is really not the general-case one. BM Basically, you're using a zone capped off at 1 page. Currently in BM UMA, this is the size of the slab.

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-21 Thread Harti Brandt
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: BM A. Given the explanation, the small size of the limits makes a BM lot more sense now. Previously, the limit probably enforced the BM actual number of cached (pre-allocated) items in the pool. So, it was BM more than just a limit, it was a

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Andy Farkas wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: It looks tp me that if we make a thread runnable and there is a processor in the idle loop, the idle processor should be kicked in some way to make it go get the newly runnable

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: Andy Farkas wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: It looks tp me that if we make a thread runnable and there is a processor in the idle loop, the idle processor should be kicked in

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
Mr Wolf, Heh, you noticed :) Currently (cpu_idle_hlt=1) the load is fluctuating between 2.20 and 3.60 every few minutes! (xload looks like a graph of a sinewave) If I set cpu_idle_hlt back to 0 the load goes back to a steady 3.80 where it should be. define should. When all 3 seti's

Re: SMP and setrunnable()- scheduler 4bsd

2003-07-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Andy Farkas wrote: Mr Wolf, Heh, you noticed :) Currently (cpu_idle_hlt=1) the load is fluctuating between 2.20 and 3.60 every few minutes! (xload looks like a graph of a sinewave) If I set cpu_idle_hlt back to 0 the load goes back to a steady 3.80 where

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-19 Thread Lara Harti Brandt
Bosko Milekic wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:05:58PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: Hi all, it seems there is a problem with the zone allocator in SMP systems. I have a zone, that has an upper limit on items that resolves to an upper limit of pages of 1. It turns out, that allocations from

Re: SMP problem with uma_zalloc

2003-07-19 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:31:26PM +0200, Lara Harti Brandt wrote: [...] Well the problem is, that nothing is starved. I have an idle machine and a zone that I have limited to 60 or so items. When allocating the 2nd item I get block on the zone limit. Usually I get unblocked whenever I free

Re: SMP page update

2003-07-16 Thread David Schultz
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003, Alp ATICI wrote: I was wondering whether the SMPng page at http://www.freebsd.org/smp is updated as those features are added. Because it seems like no feature update for long. For instance is the preemptible kernel going to be a part of 5.x series or going to be

Re: SMP CPU_SUSP_HLT

2003-06-21 Thread Bruno Van Den Bossche
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:47:42 +0100 (BST) RMH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gentlemen, it seems CPU_SUSP_HLT does nothing for SMP kernels. i386/i386/machdep.c: #ifdef SMP static int cpu_idle_hlt = 0; #else static int cpu_idle_hlt = 1; #endif It's noted that when enabled

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-13 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote: Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this and hence include the virtual cores in idle calcs etc making load monitoring impossible

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven Hartland wrote: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Relevant sections from dmesg: Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 - irq 0

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Killing
- Original Message - From: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote: - Original Message - From: Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do any useful work. Yep but the issue is that

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Killing
Well, hyperthreading can be disabled via a kernel directive, right? From what I've seen that was removed between 5.0 and 5.1 correct me if Im wrong. Which ever it needs someone to pick it up ASAP dont you think? Really? What's the hurry? FreeBSD 5.x isn't even bootable/installable

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Killing wrote this message on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 18:47 +0100: I suppose the hurry is that basic utils that we use day to day like top and vmstat to monitor machine load cannot be trusted to give accurate info. Actually, the basic tools ARE correct, there is a cpu sitting idle that the

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Hartland
Original Message - From: John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes 5.X is still new tech and may not run on all machines but on the ones which it does ( and it runs very well here ) basic tools are required. If it doesn't run on a machine your under know false impressions, if however

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-16 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a brutal workaround (use a single 8254 clock and simulate the RTC clock), but it breaks some things (eg: high res profiling). I really dont like it, and I'm working on a different possibility as well (keep the 8259 PIC alive and use it in ExtInt

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:09:09AM +0100, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: The server is configured for Unixware7, as told in the archives. our Compaq worked when configured for linux -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) To Unsubscribe:

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Fritz Heinrichmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:09:09AM +0100, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: The server is configured for Unixware7, as told in the archives. our Compaq worked when configured for linux Nope :-(. I just tried this option, and the server still hangs at the

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread phk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolas Kowalski writes: Fritz Heinrichmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:09:09AM +0100, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: The server is configured for Unixware7, as told in the archives. our Compaq worked when configured for linux Nope :-(. I

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it would screw up the floppy driver. This sounds like black magic, but the explanation is that

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Is the ML370 a new box? I've heard rumors recently that one of the recent Compaq boxes effectively doesn't generate clock interrupts in SMP mode and there isn't a workaround for that at the moment. Yes. I received it last Friday. I think these

RE: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
: John Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:55 AM To: Nicolas Kowalski Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a Compaq visit my lab

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's a vicious rumor -- no operating system could work without clock interrupts in SMP mode... Could it? Which generation of the ML370 is having this problem? I had a similar problem on another box that was corrected with a newer BIOS

RE: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread John Baldwin
problem on another box that was corrected with a newer BIOS version. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: John Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:55 AM To: Nicolas Kowalski Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq

Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Wemm
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 On 15-Jan-2003 Nicolas Kowalski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a Compaq visit my lab recently. Unless the aic driver were removed from the kernel (disabling it might have worked too) it would screw

RE: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370

2003-01-15 Thread Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMP hang at boot on Compaq Proliant ML370 John Baldwin wrote: On 15-Jan-2003 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: That's a vicious rumor -- no operating system could work without clock interrupts in SMP mode... Could it? I think it had something to do more

Re: SMP kernel on 5.0-release ISO's?

2002-12-16 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:44:57 -0500 Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ISO's? Do people think that would be a useful item to include? Yes and no, let me explain. The first thing I do just after I install FreBSD on a box (given it has enough cpu power) is rebuild world and kernel

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running

2002-11-20 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
I haven't had any Hard Locks since I upgraded the BIOS on my BP6 from LP to RU and cvsup/buildworld/installworld again. At the moment I'm thinking that my system is stable again, but won't feel comfortable with that until I do some more stress testing. I've gotten a panic, but I think its

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running

2002-11-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:25, Joel M. Baldwin a écrit : I haven't had any Hard Locks since I upgraded the BIOS on my BP6 from LP to RU and cvsup/buildworld/installworld again. I'll upgrade my BIOS ASAP At the moment I'm thinking that my system is stable again, but won't feel

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running

2002-11-19 Thread Nate Lawson
I have a couple BP6's running -stable and was having hard lock problems under heavy IO until I dropped back to ATA33 on the drives (I moved them to the onboard Intel controller instead of the HPT366). sos@ informed me that the HPT366 has a buggy DMA controller and that ATA66 on them wouldn't

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running

2002-11-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 19 November 2002 22:35, Nate Lawson a écrit : I have a couple BP6's running -stable and was having hard lock problems under heavy IO until I dropped back to ATA33 on the drives (I moved them to the onboard Intel controller instead of the HPT366). sos@ informed me that the HPT366

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Lukes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 11/17/02 18:34: I haven't been able to complete a full buildworld with an SMP on a Abit BP6 (bi-celeron) board for two weeks (the kernel config is just a full GENERIC with SMP and APICIO options enabled). I also am running a BP6. IS ANYONE successfully

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from runningdnet on SMP kernel]

2002-11-17 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
--On Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:36 AM +0100 Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Sunday 17 November 2002 10:50, Joel M. Baldwin a écrit : running dnet on a SMP kernel causes the kernel to panic. [Hijacking another thread ?] No problem, lets compare notes. I haven't been able

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running dnet on SMP kernel]

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Even make -j1 buildworld with the SMP kernel ends with a complete freeze of the machine (the kernel does not go to a panic where I could try a backtrace) I've seen several reports that using a serial break to get into ddb is now quite a bit more

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running dnet on SMP kernel]

2002-11-17 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Sunday 17 November 2002 20:46, Robert Watson a écrit : I've seen several reports that using a serial break to get into ddb is now quite a bit more reliable than a keyboard break. If you're not already using a serial console, you might want to give it a try (make sure to turn on

Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running dneton SMP kernel]

2002-11-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: I've seen several reports that using a serial break to get into ddb is now quite a bit more reliable than a keyboard break. If you're not already This is a fact. In RELENG_4, the keyboard interrupt handler is a normal tty interrupt handler so it

Re: SMP broken on PPro

2002-11-06 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have had no trouble with UP -STABLE running on a dual PPro system, but I'm getting an early panic in UP and SMP -CURRENT on the same system. I will post details to current@ soon if I can't figure out the problem. The problem on -STABLE is

RE: SMP: httpd stuck in *Giant state

2002-05-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-May-2002 Yuri Victorovich wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.0 on Alpha 7310. Apache httpd was running fine for a week and today after I've added mod_php4 I got after 30 min a condition when all httpd's were reported by top as *Giant not responding to TCP requests and killall -9 httpd

RE: SMP: httpd stuck in *Giant state

2002-05-02 Thread Yuri Victorovich
Ok, so they are all blocked. Does the machine respond to other interrupts ok? I.e., can you ssh into the machine and what not? Or is the machine basically hung? Everything else was just fine. Actually I was runnning top through ssh. In /var/log/messages also nothing relevant. Yuri.

Re: SMP ffs_mountfs() broken?

2002-03-23 Thread Chris
Which mobo/chipset ? * Lamont Granquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020323 02:14]: I just cvsupped about an hour ago, built world and built a kernel that was GENERIC with 486/586 turned off and SMP and IOAPIC turned on. It crashed while trying to mount root. Apologies for mistakes in the

Re: SMP ffs_mountfs() broken?

2002-03-23 Thread Lamont Granquist
Of course that should be an A7M266D... (its friday, my brain is fried and i think i need to take a sauna...) On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Lamont Granquist wrote: GENERIC works, so this looks like an SMP problem. Its happening right after the CPU initializes. This is probably the first SMP code

Re: SMP ffs_mountfs() broken?

2002-03-22 Thread Lamont Granquist
GENERIC works, so this looks like an SMP problem. Its happening right after the CPU initializes. This is probably the first SMP code the machine runs? Is hardware incompatibility a good guess? I would have expected that if someone broke ffs_mountfs() that someone else would have noticed by

Re: smp hang on -current?

2002-01-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box, I've enabled SMP, and APIC, disabled WITNESS and INVARIANTS. It hangs after probing scsi right before mountroot. It looks like something may be botched with interrupts: hi, happy new year 2002!, APIC_IO: Testing 8254

Re: SMP system hangs on current, not stable

2002-01-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Pete Carah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I need an NMI button (or does that work?) You can generate NMIs by shortening the first two pins of an ISA slot with a screwdriver (the two pins close to the back where the ISA slot covers are). This can also be done with PCI slots, if that board

Re: SMP system hangs on current, not stable

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a system using a fairly new Supermicro MB, with 2 P3-1GHZ, and 512mb :ram. Running stable works fine at least a day or so with LOTS of activity. :Running current it hangs (with no output of any kind, and apparently all :interrupts disabled) so DDB does me no good... This requires a

Re: SMP private storage..

2001-08-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Julian Elischer wrote: If we are not going to use separate VM mapping s to keep the per-cpu information separate any more, then can we remove the support for it from the kernel? No, this is still very much used. I really want to fix this and will try and take a shot over the weekend.

Re: smp instability

2000-10-26 Thread Patrick Hartling
Patrick Hartling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } } } } } On 25-Oct-00 Chuck Robey wrote: } } I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII } } setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my } } system, I can't

Re: smp instability

2000-10-25 Thread Patrick Hartling
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } } On 25-Oct-00 Chuck Robey wrote: } I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII } setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my } system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. } }

Re: smp instability

2000-10-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Chuck Robey writes: I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. Is there any chance that I could make things better by using a

RE: smp instability

2000-10-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Oct-00 Chuck Robey wrote: I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. Is there any chance that I could make things better by

RE: smp instability

2000-10-24 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote: On 25-Oct-00 Chuck Robey wrote: I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. Is

Re: smp instability

2000-10-24 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: Chuck Robey writes: I'm having rather extreme problems with stability on my dual PIII setup. I know this is to be expected, but it's gotten so extreme on my system, I can't spend more than a few minutes before it locks up. Is there any chance

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:11:27AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the commit messages before I actually do my next

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Motomichi Matsuzaki
At 6 Sep 2000 18:35:17 -0700, Jason Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run into issues that appear related to the SMP changes, and they aren't listed as known issues, please bring them up on the -smp or -current mailing list. this breaks building GENERIC kernel. cc -c -O -pipe -Wall

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Wesley Morgan
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything else as -current? -- _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:31:06PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything else as -current? top and

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
Jason Evans wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:31:06PM -0400, Wesley Morgan wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote: A static tag, named PRE_SMPNG, was created at 18:00 PDT. The SMP patches have now been committed. Is it safe to follow src-sys from PRE_SMPNG and everything

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 3:11:27 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the commit messages before I actually do my

Re: SMP changes committed ... ?

2000-09-07 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 3:11:27 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: I thought one of the SMP developers announced that it was now committed, yet I haven't seen any commit messages for it ... I'm running the newest patch, so am waiting for the

Re: SMP mega-commit complete

2000-09-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 20:06:20 +0900, Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: At 6 Sep 2000 18:35:17 -0700, Jason Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run into issues that appear related to the SMP changes, and they aren't listed as known issues, please bring them up on the -smp or -current

Re: SMP and softupdates?

2000-08-28 Thread John Baldwin
Brad Knowles wrote: At 7:36 PM + 2000/8/28, Alex Zepeda wrote: Perhaps in a rush to get started, I've compiled and been using a SMP kernel even before the second processor arrives. This has worked fine, however I've gotten some rather weird hangs and

Re: SMP and softupdates?

2000-08-28 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:46:20PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: Personally, I'm astonished that an SMP kernel will actually boot and run on a uniprocessor machine. Grr, still getting used to mutt, and I didn't reply to the list. Yes, I'm using an SMP board, and waiting on the arrival of

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-21 Thread Jason Evans
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:41:57AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? I'm at USENIX right now, so I'm a bit strapped for time to work on this. Still, I plan to email a brief summary of the meeting

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-21 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 June 2000 at 9:41:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? I'm writing up a detailed trip report for my company. I can't see why I shouldn't forward it to the SMP list as well, but I

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-21 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 June 2000 at 11:16:24 +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? Who was there, anyway? From my trip report. This can hardly be confidential.

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? Can we get to see the slides ? Audio ? Video ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? Who was there, anyway? Martin -- % Martin Cracauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Martin Cracauer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? Who was there, anyway? Yeah, those of us who couldn't make it are kinda (to say the least) interested in what was

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what : the outcome of the meeting was ? : : Can we get to see the slides ? : : Audio ? : : Video ? I know that I'd love to see this. Steve Passe also is interested. Warner

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due toSMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: I know that I'd love to see this. Steve Passe also is interested. I heard that Greg Lehey was videotaping (he's currently at usenix) and someone else had slides they were going to make available. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? I believe that Jason Evans already sent a message summarizing the meeting, and Matt Dillon's webpage gives a pretty good summary of

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Lemon writes: In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Am I the only person who miss a brief document which tells what the outcome of the meeting was ? I believe that Jason Evans already sent a message summarizing the meeting, and

Re: SMP locking primities (was Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development)

2000-06-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On this page, you say: : : The algorithms described on this page are essentially the BSDI algorithms : plus accomodations we disussed at the Yahoo SMP meeting. However, I did : not do a direct port. I did a from-scratch rewrite because, simply put, : it was easier for me. The variables are

Re: SMP + APM = panic - fixed!

2000-06-07 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: We're having this problem for long time (from the old 4.0-CURRENT days), but Mr. SUMITANI discovered a bug and fixed it. The problem was that we got worng gdt pointer for the current cpu, then panic... The followings is a patch to fix

Re: SMP + APM = panic - fixed!

2000-06-06 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:06:15AM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: We're having this problem for long time (from the old 4.0-CURRENT days), but Mr. SUMITANI discovered a bug and fixed it. The problem was that we got worng gdt pointer for the current cpu, then panic... The followings is a

Re: SMP + APM = panic - fixed!

2000-06-06 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Please test this and I'll commit MFC this if we have no problem with this fix. I don't have an SMP + APM system around at the moment, but the fix does look correct to me, go ahead and commit it. Thanks for tracking this down! Thank you for reviewing this. I'm going to comit tomorrow

Re: SMP + APM = panic - fixed!

2000-06-06 Thread Boris Popov
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: We're having this problem for long time (from the old 4.0-CURRENT days), but Mr. SUMITANI discovered a bug and fixed it. The problem was that we got worng gdt pointer for the current cpu, then panic... The followings is a patch to fix the problem.

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Jake Burkholder wrote: ...snip... Its nice to see someone actually using kobj so soon. There is a possible performance problem though - kobj method calls are roughly 20% slower than direct function calls. Having said that, this isn't that slow - I timed a method

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-27 Thread Jake Burkholder
...snip... Its nice to see someone actually using kobj so soon. There is a possible performance problem though - kobj method calls are roughly 20% slower than direct function calls. Having said that, this isn't that slow - I timed a method call to a two argument function at ~40ns on a

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-26 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Try buildworld on one machine and installworld on all of your production boxes.. installworld only takes 10-20 minutes to run on my crappy IDE disks. Yes, that's what I'm doing now - so far the best method. But still requires having N+1 boxes

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 26-Apr-00 Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Yes, that's what I'm doing now - so far the best method. But still requires having N+1 boxes (which is not a concern for me, but for someone having e.g. 2 boxes in production this represents 1/3 increment), plus topology allowing for using NFS mounts.

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-26 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:33:46AM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Try buildworld on one machine and installworld on all of your production boxes.. installworld only takes 10-20 minutes to run on my crappy IDE disks. Yes, that's what I'm doing now - so far the best method. But still

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