Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:27:40 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/104624: Sound, mouse and keyboard badly interrupted while I/O (disk, net)
Message-ID:  <20101224112740.GA99003@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101223192130.00007b30@unknown>
References:  <201012121110.oBCBABjm057751@freefall.freebsd.org> <20101212111844.7510053e@core.draftnet> <20101212121923.GA61077@freebsd.org> <20101223103220.0000483f@unknown> <20101223183720.GA84742@freebsd.org> <20101223192130.00007b30@unknown>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu Dec 23 10, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:37:20 +0000
> Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > is this output right at the beginning normal?
> > 
> > fio: this platform does not support process shared mutexes, forcing
> > use of threads. Use the 'thread' option to get rid of this warning.
> > f1: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ...
> > f1: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1
> > fio: this platform does not support process shared mutexes, forcing
> > use of threads. Use the 'thread' option to get rid of this warning.
> > f2: (g=1): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ...
> > f2: (g=1): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1
> > fio: this platform does not support process shared mutexes, forcing
> > use of threads. Use the 'thread' option to get rid of this warning.
> > f3: (g=2): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ...
> > f3: (g=2): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1
> > fio: this platform does not support process shared mutexes, forcing
> > use of threads. Use the 'thread' option to get rid of this warning.
> > f4: (g=3): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ...
> > f4: (g=3): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1
> > Starting 12 threads and 4 processes
> 
> Yes - it just means that FreeBSD doesn't support pshared mutexes. You
> can add "thread" to the job file to stop the warning.

thanks for the hint. have you verified that this behavior only occurs on
systems with a dual core cpu?  is it possible to disable one core and see
if the behavior is also reproducable then? i'd like to test this, but i don't
know the magic juju to disable one of my cpu cores. :(

cheers.
alex

> 
> -- 
> Bruce Cran

-- 
a13x



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20101224112740.GA99003>