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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:00:53 -0700
From:      Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195960 - in head/sys/dev/usb: . controller input
Message-ID:  <20090801050053.GB8399@doormat.home>
In-Reply-To: <4A73AF67.3010508@samsco.org>
References:  <200907300014.n6U0EZ77086341@svn.freebsd.org> <d04e16b70907310045y635245efob33b10464c22524f@mail.gmail.com> <20090801022914.GB93222@hades.panopticon> <4A73AF67.3010508@samsco.org>

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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:58:47PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> >* Navdeep Parhar (nparhar@gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >>This has slowed down core dumps very significantly.  What used to take 10-15s on
> >>my system now takes around 3 minutes.
> >
> >Same here.
> >
> 
> Likely because prior to polling being implemented, each i/o was done
> blindly and completed immediately instead of waiting for actual
> confirmation from the hardware.  Crashdumps have been slow for a
> number of years, thanks to a fundamental change in how they are done.
> Until now, USB was cheating and making them look fast.

I'm afraid I did not understand your email.  I was talking about
crashdump time differences between yesterday and the day before, not
"over a number of years."  Are there any other issues involved here?

Regards,
Navdeep



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