Re: SMP users needed to test patch

[Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 ?


Best regards,
Stathis Kamperis