The following reply was made to PR kern/172166; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alexander Motin <m...@freebsd.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <egrosb...@rdtc.ru> Cc: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, eu...@eg.sd.rdtc.ru, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/172166: Deadlock in the networking code, possible due to a bug in the SCHED_ULE Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:53:49 +0300 On 02.10.2012 10:48, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 02.10.2012 13:58, Alexander Motin ÐÉÛÅÔ: >> About rw_lock priority propagation locking(9) tells: >> The rw_lock locks have priority propagation like mutexes, but priority >> can be propagated only to an exclusive holder. This limitation comes >> from the fact that shared owners are anonymous. >> >> What's about idle stealing threshold, it was fixed in HEAD at r239194, >> but wasn't merged yet. It should be trivial to merge it. > > Would it fix my problem with 6-CPU box? > Your commit log talks about "8 or more cores". Hmm. Then I see no reason why threads were not stolen, unless they are bound to specific CPU. Check `sysctl kern.sched.steal_thresh` output to be sure. -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
