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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:39:17 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Peformance issues with r278325
Message-ID:  <2326466.jJrZ2mpkPP@ralph.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <A6D0C094-9402-49D6-832D-4BA9C2A7384F@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday, March 18, 2016 12:01:37 PM Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 18, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW we are currently testing the delay '1' change.  Unfortunately, the test is
> > not easy to repeat (we didn't find a synthetic one yet that results in the same
> > outcome), so it does take more time that I would like.  Will follow up with the 
> > results.
> > 
> > We did try HEAD as well a while ago, and although it exhibited the same pattern.
> > However it did not utilize the x2apic unfortunately, as it does seem to be disables
> > in the BIOS (FreeBSD reports it being disables in the DMAR table).
> > 
> > Thanks for looking into it!
> > 
> 
> Replying to my own message.
> 
> The `delay 1` test was a success, we were not able to reproduce the same issues
> as we had with a 5us delay in that loop.  So perhaps we should commit the delay
> change into stable/10 instead of reverting the code altogether (I assume the original
> change was done to solve a real issue?).

Ok, I will commit this to HEAD today.  Thanks!

-- 
John Baldwin



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