Re: SMP implementation

2016-05-06 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 05/05/16(Thu) 19:03, Pavan Maddamsetti wrote: > I have been reading about ongoing improvements to SMP in OpenBSD. My > understanding is that context switching from userspace to the kernel can be > hazardous if shared resources are not protected by locking. The context switching it not the

Re: SMP kernel/AMD64 stuck in reboot loop - NIC driver or other bug?

2015-03-22 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:53:24AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-03-21, John E.P. Hynes j...@hytronix.com wrote: If anyone has any ideas, or would like more info, or if a dev suspects it could be the driver, contact me off-list and I can arrange to send hardware if it helps.

Re: SMP kernel/AMD64 stuck in reboot loop - NIC driver or other bug?

2015-03-22 Thread John E.P. Hynes
It does the same thing on 5.3 through -current. I haven't put that box in the rack yet so I can try a few older kernels too and see if any work. Will report back. On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Claudio Jeker cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:53:24AM +, Stuart

Re: SMP kernel/AMD64 stuck in reboot loop - NIC driver or other bug?

2015-03-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-03-21, John E.P. Hynes j...@hytronix.com wrote: If anyone has any ideas, or would like more info, or if a dev suspects it could be the driver, contact me off-list and I can arrange to send hardware if it helps. It might be worth talking to Supermicro.

Re: SMP kernel/AMD64 stuck in reboot loop - NIC driver or other bug?

2015-03-21 Thread John E.P. Hynes
Well, I discovered the issue - the few machines that work properly had a different quad-port nic in them. With certain BIOS settings, you can catch part of the kernel panic before the screen goes crazy. Codes that were visible depending on BIOS settings: kernel: type 1994916275 trap, code=0

Re: smp

2013-05-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Alfonso S. Siciliano alfi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm trying to study the concurrency and the parallelism of OpenBSD. Fortunately SMP is supported on my platform, amd64. Where can I find documentation about what components are been parallelized? (queue,

Re: smp

2013-05-16 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:03:40PM +0200, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote: Hi, I'm trying to study the concurrency and the parallelism of OpenBSD. Fortunately SMP is supported on my platform, amd64. Where can I find documentation about what components are been parallelized? (queue, stack, etc.)

Re: smp

2013-05-16 Thread Alfonso S. Siciliano
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:19:08 +0200 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: Since you do not tell us if you are interested in the kernel or userland side of things, it is hard to point you to manual pages or other documentation. I have been too generic. My interest is to find the differences

Re: smp

2013-05-16 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 05:05:09PM +0200, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:19:08 +0200 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: Since you do not tell us if you are interested in the kernel or userland side of things, it is hard to point you to manual pages or other

Re: smp

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Alfonso S. Siciliano [alfi...@gmail.com] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to study the concurrency and the parallelism of OpenBSD. Fortunately SMP is supported on my platform, amd64. Where can I find documentation about what components are been parallelized? (queue, stack, etc.) No such documents

Re: SMP machine, run a program on a single CPU?

2011-07-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/09/11 03:57, Maurice Janssen wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow force a program to run on a single CPU in an SMP system? The reason I ask that on some SMP-capable architectures, I'm having some problems with ntpd. On hppa and sgi, the clock won't sync because ntpd sees replies

Re: SMP machine, run a program on a single CPU?

2011-07-09 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 07:52:58AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 07/09/11 03:57, Maurice Janssen wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow force a program to run on a single CPU in an SMP system? The reason I ask that on some SMP-capable architectures, I'm having some problems with ntpd. On

Re: SMP machine, run a program on a single CPU?

2011-07-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 07:52:58AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 07/09/11 03:57, Maurice Janssen wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow force a program to run on a single CPU in an SMP system? The reason I ask that on some

Re: SMP Advice

2011-02-26 Thread Marco Peereboom
right here: http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html thanks jsing kettenis and others that made SMP work on hppa! On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:48:35PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: Can't seem to find the SMP HCL results posted anywhere - does anyone have a recommendation? Lee

Re: smp

2010-07-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Robert Yuri robert.yu...@gmail.com wrote: what is the state of the smp support in openbsd ? Better than yesterday, not as good as tomorrow we'll degust improvements after the hackathon ? If you want to know what happened during the hackathon, you should 1)

Re: SMP

2009-12-11 Thread Donald Allen
Thanks to everyone who took the time to weigh in on this. Perhaps most useful to me are the comments of those who have used OpenBSD for heavy database work (I intend to use Postgresql) and have gotten satisfactory results. To Daniel -- I don't think we'll be working for or with each other in the

Re: SMP

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 12/11/09 12:51 PM, Donald Allen wrote: Thanks to everyone who took the time to weigh in on this. Perhaps most useful to me are the comments of those who have used OpenBSD for heavy database work (I intend to use Postgresql) and have gotten satisfactory results. Then using PostgreSQL should

Re: SMP

2009-12-11 Thread Matthew Weigel
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:56:57 -0500, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: Then using PostgreSQL should really work well for you then and you wouldn't really need or benefit much from multicore kernel with the giant lock removed as PostgreSQL is not and do not use threads anyway by

Re: SMP

2009-12-10 Thread nixlists
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Gracia Garallar danie...@electronicagracia.com wrote: It is true, and AFAIK, todays it's a topper nice task... almost 20. Regards, Dani Donald Allen escribis: IMHO I hope OpenBSD doesn't use locks at all in the future taking FreeBSD's lesson, but

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If yes it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers consider it a priority to improve

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If yes it is, do

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread andres
Quoting Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers consider it a priority to improve this? (I am NOT

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, and...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable and/or insecure system isn't worth much in most, if any, settings. On the other hand, a rock-solid, secure system that simply doesn't deliver the

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
Of course people care. Any other answer is silly. On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:36:10PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: My understanding is that OpenBSD still

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable and/or insecure system isn't worth much in most, if any, settings. On the other hand,

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I don't, and many times we don't have the luxury of having such examples or data. I'm in a different kind of real-world situation: I'm setting up a database server on a 4-core machine that is going to carry a heavy load -- it's performance will be critical to the success of the project -- and I

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Robert
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:13:15 -0500 Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 22:56, Wed 09 Dec 09, Robert wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:13:15 -0500 Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: So, what's heavy for you may be just simple routine for others and no, I do not miss the fine lock either yet anyway. Would be nice, but really, I haven't run into it's need for me anyway yet. That's true for me as

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Robert
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:07:02 +0100 Michiel van Baak mich...@vanbaak.info wrote: On 22:56, Wed 09 Dec 09, Robert wrote: Just last month i have seen a database server being upgraded from 32GB to 256GB of RAM because that was easier (to justify) for them than to fix their horrible db layout.

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread nixlists
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: So, what's heavy for you may be just simple routine for others and no, I do not miss the fine lock either yet anyway. Would be nice, but really, I

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
Soo... Your performance requirements may met by OpenBSD despite it's current poor SMP support - other OSes will scale on SMP. Trade-offs, trade-offs... It's a psychological issue. We have all this multicore hardware that doesn't get taken advantage of by this OS, and it's always in the backs

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Robert
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:46:25 -0700 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Soo... Your performance requirements may met by OpenBSD despite it's current poor SMP support - other OSes will scale on SMP. Trade-offs, trade-offs... It's a psychological issue. We have all this multicore

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread nixlists
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Soo... Your performance requirements may met by OpenBSD despite it's current poor SMP support - other OSes will scale on SMP. Trade-offs, trade-offs... It's a psychological issue. We have all this multicore hardware

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
It is true, and AFAIK, todays it's a topper nice task... almost 20. Regards, Dani Donald Allen escribis: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Zafer Daştan
hi, is that possible to put all kernel (ip related ) tasks to cpu[0] and all other userland task to rest of cpus ? i viewed quickly but my knowledge very limited on this regards Zafer -bb--- 10.Ara.2009 tarihinde 02:05 saatinde, Robert rob...@openbsd.pap.st EunlarD1 yazdD1: On

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-21 Thread Boris Goldberg
Hello Daniel, Just want to make sure that we are on the same page: I'm talking about i386. It seems from below that your concern is more about amd64, but I didn't really try it, because my CPU isn't even a Xeon. Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 6:00:16 PM, you wrote: I have pretty

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-21 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Boris Goldberg wrote: Hello Daniel, Just want to make sure that we are on the same page: I'm talking about i386. It seems from below that your concern is more about amd64, but I didn't really try it, because my CPU isn't even a Xeon. You are 100% right. An oversight on my part here.

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-19 Thread Boris Goldberg
Hello Daniel, Monday, September 17, 2007, 3:14:05 PM, you wrote: DO Now that is working do me a favor and try to compile the userland and DO kernel with that bsd.mp acpi enable kernel. DO Also, try if possible to make transfer of huge files between two boxes DO well connected to try to at a

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Boris Goldberg wrote: I have pretty much the same picture with HP ProLiant 320 G5 (Dual Core Pentium-D 925). The server is new and passes all tests from the HP maintenance CD. I couldn't make what BIOS version you were actually running there, but you did check to make sure you

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/19 19:00, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Le me know how it goes with current, I am curious as so far all feedback I got is no one yet can get an AMD64.mp stable at this time this must be hardware-dependent, my main desktop is amd64 MP (opteron 175 i.e. dual-core) and gives no trouble on

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/09/19 19:00, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Le me know how it goes with current, I am curious as so far all feedback I got is no one yet can get an AMD64.mp stable at this time this must be hardware-dependent, my main desktop is amd64 MP (opteron 175 i.e. dual-core) and

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Taulborg
load averages: 0.30, 0.08, 0.03 05:22:12 15 processes: 14 idle, 1 on processor CPU0 states: 0.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.7% system, 0.1% interrupt, 98.9% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system,

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/16/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Taulborg wrote: I appologize for not including this, here is the dmesg of a successful boot of the amd 4.2 DEFAULT kernel: Paul, Not sure all the tests you did, but first do not run AMD64 on Intel processor. I would do this first

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Booya! Updated my BIOS to the latest version (44), and applied the patch that was kindly provided to me here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=118975639013313w=2 I also enabled acpi0 in the kernel by default (required to see the other processors), and tada! I had to

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Also Paul, Now that is working do me a favor and try to compile the userland and kernel with that bsd.mp acpi enable kernel. Also, try if possible to make transfer of huge files between two boxes well connected to try to at a minimum get close to 100Mb/sec of transfer, or more if you have

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
I appologize for not including this, here is the dmesg of a successful boot of the amd 4.2 DEFAULT kernel: OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #1191: Thu Sep 13 14:19:37 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 2142949376 (2043MB) avail mem = 2069811200

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: I appologize for not including this, here is the dmesg of a successful boot of the amd 4.2 DEFAULT kernel: Paul, Not sure all the tests you did, but first do not run AMD64 on Intel processor. I would do this first thing if you haven't done already. - Go into BIOS and

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
Hi Daniel, Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. In any case; when attempting to run the i386 bsd.mp it hangs here: mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support It's a hard freeze-up, the keyboard will not

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
Update: I ran boot -c with verbose on, and here are the last entries: various probing failed messages (doesn't look like any problems), then: ioapic0: conflicting map entries for pin 0 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR Support hard hang -- no further

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. I am not expert to say yes or no here. May be someone else will confirm or deny. For now I would assume wrongly may be, but I wouldn't

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Update: I ran boot -c with verbose on, and here are the last entries: various probing failed messages (doesn't look like any problems), then: ioapic0: conflicting map entries for pin 0 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR Support

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
i386 GENERIC works, and boots up normally. i386 SMP (bsd.mp) hangs at the line below (and additional lines in my other message). I have to hard power the machine down at this hang (i386 SMP kernel). This same exact thing occurs with both 4.1 and current (just downloaded the current today).

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. To answer your question, I guess it depend on the version of your processor. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=117112049507303w=2 I

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul, If you want to try the AMD64 mp kernel with the patch I point out to you on tech of a few days ago and see if that help you or not, I can make the kernel I built that night for you to download and try if you trust it. I would say to built your own, but if you want to do a quick test

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: I went through every option in the BIOS, and there is nothing at all related to ACPI. :( Your BIOS is version 35, and there is a very long list of BIOS upgrades from Intel. The latest one for this board, if I am not mistaken is 44 and you have 35. bios0: vendor Intel

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Scheliga
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cyrus Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:24 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: SMP Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Firas Kraiem
Cyrus wrote: Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to utilize SMP? P.S. I did show my appreciation, and I bought a CD! Thank you,

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/13/07, Cyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to utilize SMP? SMP is the kernel that supports multiple

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Adriaan
On 9/14/07, Cyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to utilize SMP? [snip] You will have to use the bsd,mp

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/13/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/13/07, Cyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-30 Thread Artur Grabowski
Jon Steel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I forgot to add: In the log of pmap.c I found revision 1.97 date: 2007/02/20 21:15:01; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +204 -500 Revert PAE pmap for now, until the strange bug is found. This stops the freezes many of us are seeing (especially on

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-30 Thread Matthew Szudzik
Then after about an hour, when you try and reboot, I get an error: uvm_fault(0x..., 0x..., 0, 1) - e kernel: page fault trap, code = 0 stopped at pmap_page_remove_86+0x114: 0(%eax, %edx, 4), %eax I suspect that I may be experiencing the same problem. I have a brand new Lenovo

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-30 Thread Matthew Szudzik
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 at 16:48 -0400, Matthew Szudzik wrote: I suspect that I may be experiencing the same problem. After talking with Art, we've decided that I'm probably experiencing a problem with the ath driver, and not the SMP uvm_fault bug. My problem disappears when I boot -c and disable

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Steel
Hi Ive finally got the current version running and the problem below has disappeared. I was wondering however if the problem has actually been solved. The line of code that Im crashing on is line 3005 of pmap.c in version 4.0: 3005if (pve-pv_ptp (PDE(pve-pv_pmap, 3006

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Steel
I forgot to add: In the log of pmap.c I found revision 1.97 date: 2007/02/20 21:15:01; author: tom; state: Exp; lines: +204 -500 Revert PAE pmap for now, until the strange bug is found. This stops the freezes many of us are seeing (especially on amd64 machines running OpenBSD/i386). Much

Re: SMP causing uvm_fault

2007-03-27 Thread Jon Steel
Theo de Raadt wrote: Can you try this with -current? I tried with current but it froze on bootup after loading the Intel MTRR. Vijay is having the same problem though and he said that current did not solve the problem. Im very suspicious of the following piece of code in

Re: SMP kernel on single CPU machines?

2007-01-07 Thread Nick Holland
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Hi everybody, this may be a really stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway since I didn't find anything using Google or in the archives. I was looking at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP I'm wondering if there are any disadvantages if I run a

Re: SMP kernel on single CPU machines?

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Tobias Weisserth wrote: this may be a really stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway since I didn't find anything using Google or in the archives. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=smpq=b Gives me 264 instance of smp. One of the most noticeable difference, not that

Re: SMP and ichiic Error

2006-07-08 Thread Marcos Laufer
Hi there too, I am having the exact same error, buy my ichiic0 is Intel 82801FB SMBus and i have only one processor. Note that my kernel is GENERIC, not GENERIC.MP . I've also tried disabling hyperthreading at the bios, but the errors still show up. Regards, Marcos Laufer Oh, here is my dmesg

Re: SMP

2006-06-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:32:00AM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear folks, some time ago, i posted a message asking about SMP support in openbsd. I wondered what was the state-of-art algorithm for massive parallel performance and the one openbsd picked. Sorry, but i turn to this subject

Re: SMP

2006-06-22 Thread Pedro Martelletto
i've had ufs2 done (well, the kernel part) on my laptop for almost six months now :) most of it is in, although, as joachim pointed you to, some essential parts had to be backed out cause compatibility with old tools was broken, which is just not acceptable in openbsd. and that was totally my

Re: SMP error

2006-06-15 Thread edgarz
Hi! There was another thread about SMP, OpenBSD does not support HypeThreading :/ Bad, too bad :( Intel's HT is very powerfull thing :) Bill Jones wrote: Did anyone ever help you or did you figure it out yet? I am having the same problem and would like to stay with OpenBSD and not move it

Re: SMP error

2006-06-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* edgarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-15 08:12]: There was another thread about SMP, OpenBSD does not support HypeThreading :/ Bad, too bad :( Intel's HT is very powerfull thing :) OpenBSD does support HT, at least on machines with a proper MPBIOS. and indeed I have a dual xeon here that

Re: SMP error

2006-06-15 Thread Edgars
Hi! Thats interesting. May be you can say where is a problem in my case, i posted message some days ago? Henning Brauer wrote: * edgarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-15 08:12]: There was another thread about SMP, OpenBSD does not support HypeThreading :/ Bad, too bad :( Intel's HT is very

Re: SMP error

2006-06-15 Thread Adam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:03:10 +0300 edgarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! There was another thread about SMP, OpenBSD does not support HypeThreading Yes, it does. Intel's HT is very powerfull thing :) No, its not. As you yourself stated, it is HypeThreading. It may be a good demonstration

Re: SMP error

2006-06-15 Thread Jesse Gumm
Have you tried disabling Hyperthreading in BIOS and seeing if you continue to get this message? From what I've read, hyperthreading tends to lower performance on the BSDs anyway. On 6/15/06, Edgars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Thats interesting. May be you can say where is a problem in my

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
What are you trying to accomplish? AFAIK, HTT is not supported in OpenBSD. So re-enable it in BIOS - OS will ignore it anyway. On Tuesday 13 June 2006 06:01, Jesse Gumm wrote: Hello, I'm booting a Dual Xeon 2.4 Machine (just got it a few days ago), and having a bit of difficulty discerning

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Jesse Gumm
I'd like to know if the 2nd CPU is being used. I'm confused because of the lack of Flags on cpu1 while cpu0 is loaded with them. It looks like the 2nd CPU is actually a virtual CPU via Hyperthreading. If you look at the dmesg I posted, and compare the top with this dmesg (

Re: SMP issue involving Dual Xeon

2006-06-13 Thread Jesse Gumm
After doing more research, I've concluded that the 2nd cpu is indeed running properly, but I still don't know why exactly the bit flags are different for the 2nd as for the 1st. That's a mystery. But reading information on APIC IDs on Intel's site yielded some answers

Re: SMP

2006-06-08 Thread Marc Balmer
* Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear friends, i have been having an increasing interest on OpenBSD internals. So, my first movement was to buy some Unix books on OS design like The Design of the 4.4BSD . One thing i would like to know better is about SMP. Up to now i could not figure it out

Re: SMP support for Sun E450 Sparc64?

2006-04-17 Thread Nick Holland
David B. wrote: Hi, are there any plans to release a bsd.mp version for sparc64? My box currently can only use cpu0; I have 4 processors, and it seems a shame to waste all of that power. thanks There is, of course, desire to support SMP on mvme88k, sparc, sparc64, Alpha, and just about

Re: smp problem with pentium D

2006-04-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/04/06 04:19, RJ45 wrote: when I boot the SMP OpenBSD kernel with pentium D the machine goes in kernel dump. I did nto report details right now. Why not? Follow http://www.openbsd.org/report.html, it's easy.

Re: SMP on Proliant 800

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Shockley
(Redirecting to misc@, since I think the smp@ list is mostly dead.) Marco Derix wrote: I'm running the latest bios from HP/Compaq available for my system (Compaq Proliant 800 (P2) V4.08a dated 4/19/2000). I also tried the system configuration utility, but there was nothing I could configure

Re: SMP on Proliant 800

2006-03-31 Thread Marco Derix
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:39:58 -0500, Steve Shockley wrote (Redirecting to misc@, since I think the smp@ list is mostly dead.) Marco Derix wrote: I'm running the latest bios from HP/Compaq available for my system (Compaq Proliant 800 (P2) V4.08a dated 4/19/2000). I also tried the system

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Sunday, February 26, Sgt. Stedenko wrote: Is there a way to tell a process to switch which processor it's using in the SMP version of the obsd 3.8 system? Short of using the primary cpu with a UP kernel, no. Also, have there been any efforts into Ethernet device polling in the bge

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Sunday, February 26, Sgt. Stedenko wrote: I had already seen that one and didn't find it to be any help. Thanks anyways though for taking the time. The author offers a solution but no explanation. I've tuned many sysctl's and experimented with the mtu's, changing from autoselect to

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-26 Thread Shane J Pearson
On 2006.02.27, at 1:45 PM, Sgt. Stedenko wrote: Also, have there been any efforts into Ethernet device polling in the bge drivers? On a gigabit network the interrupts are eating a large portion of the cpu0 and thought it might help the situation.

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-26 Thread Sgt. Stedenko
, February 26, 2006 10:46 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SMP process control On 2006.02.27, at 1:45 PM, Sgt. Stedenko wrote: Also, have there been any efforts into Ethernet device polling in the bge drivers? On a gigabit network the interrupts are eating a large portion of the cpu0

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-26 Thread Sgt. Stedenko
Ok, thank you. -Sarge -Original Message- From: Theo de Raadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:33 PM To: Sgt. Stedenko Subject: Re: SMP process control It's not a performance issue, when your machine runs out of oomph to bridge. There seems to be something

Re: SMP

2006-02-21 Thread Jonathan Glaschke
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:06:08PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: I was wondering what is the state of art in SMP technologies ? I would like to know how close is OpenBSD to it? Thanks in advance. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP Jonathan -- | /\ ASCII Ribbon | Jonathan Glaschke -

Re: SMP

2006-02-21 Thread Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:06:08 -0300 Gustavo Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what is the state of art in SMP technologies ? I would like to know how close is OpenBSD to it? http://openbsd.org/smp.html Thanks in advance. Cheers, Jasper -- Humppa is a serious thing! [demime

Re: SMP

2006-02-21 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Tuesday, February 21, Gustavo Rios wrote: I was wondering what is the state of art in SMP technologies ? The state of art in SMP tech is this misc@ list. Seriously, think about it. You've just made (and me too!) thousands of cpu's burn some useless energy in processing your question. How