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Re: SMP users needed to test patch


From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:41:16 +0530 (IST)

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote:

> 2009/11/4 Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org>:
> > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> I'd like to mark mq*() syscall as MPSAFE, but before that I need
> >> someone to test them in an SMP capable machine running SMP kernel. I
> >> only have UP machines around.
> >>
> >> So, if anyone is able and kind enough, here are some directions on how
> >> to do it. I assume s\he is running HEAD.
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src
> >> fetch http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~beket/mq-mpsafe.diff
> >> git apply mq-mpsafe.diff
> >> make buildkernel
> >> make installkernel
> >> reboot
> >
> > Reached this far and currently face the issue which has
> > effectively disabled networking.
> >
> >  intr 2 at 40001/40000 hz, livelock limit engaged
> >
> > Details posted in a separate thread.
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > Saifi.
> >
> >
> 
> Thank you Saifi! I very much appreciate the time you've put into this.
> 
> Did you by any chance try without my patch and SMP/APIC set in your
> kernel configuration file ?
> 

Unfortunately no !

Let me try and revert the patch i applied and rebuild the kernel.
Will post an update on this.


thanks
Saifi.




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