on 02/09/2013 00:58 Adrian Chadd said the following: > On 1 September 2013 14:35, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org > <mailto:a...@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > > Do you have any evidence that there is anybody else besides Mike who has > this > problem? > > > > Nope! but we can't assume that users are reporting all the system slowdowns.
Why? > And honestly, I've heard enough strange stories on mailing lists and IRC of > things like "during disk IO, blah would be really slow, when I change > timekeeping or halt from ACPI to something else, things get better." So I > can't > discount that this is affecting people and they either don't know, or just > chalk > it up as "shitty hardware." Strange stories are just that. > Also, I usually try to "sort out" things after there is a clear > understanding of > what the problem is and how it should be fixed. > > > Well, the big change is that it's now going into a sleep state on a HT core, > right? > > Are you able to go into an ACPI sleep state on a HT logical CPU, rather than > the > physical core? Or am I mis-understanding what's going on? Most likely. I do not see how the change is HT-specific or HT-related at all. > > > Reverting and fixing it later seems like the safest option to me. Is > there a > > bigger problem that you tried to fix in that patch that wasn't as > obvious? > > I do not see any problem with the code*.* I do not see any explanation > of the > root cause of the problem that Mike has. I do not see why anything has > to be > reverted. Especially because "since we're so close to 9.2-REL". > Just in case, I'll remind that the commit in question is in stable/9 > since Dec > 23 2012. > > > Right, but I also know a lot of people who just have stayed with 8.x or > 9.0-RELEASE and haven't bothered upgrading. Again, I can't assume that > everyone > has been keeping up to date with stable/9 and providing feedback. I am positive that it's not everyone who uses (up-to-date) stable/9. Still, I believe that a user-base of stable/9 is >> 1. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
