On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:53:46PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I'm looking for testers for this diff. This should be safe to run on > amd64, i386 and sparc64. But has been reported to lock up i386 > machines. I can't reproduce this on any of my own systems. So I'm > looking for help. I'm looking for people that are able to build a > kernel with this diff and the MP_LOCKDEBUG option enabled > (uncommented) in their GENERIC.MP kernel, run it on an MP machine and > put some load on it to see if it locks up and/or panics. > > Being able to move forward with this would make OpenBSD run > significantly better on MP systems. > > Thanks, > > Mark
I just finished compiling the kernel for amd64; I might test i386 later. What kind of load would be required to give useful feedback? Would building the userland or some of the bigger ports be a useful test?
