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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:27:49 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Fullmer <maf@splintered.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds
Message-ID:  <20071225052749.GE57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <833223E8-B1ED-4358-A992-F3789E4B3070@splintered.net>
References:  <20071221234347.GS25053@tnn.dglawrence.com> <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEKLJAAC.davids@webmaster.com> <20071222050743.GP57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20071223032944.G48303@delplex.bde.org> <20071222201613.GX57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20071223095314.G1323@delplex.bde.org> <20071224131906.GB57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <833223E8-B1ED-4358-A992-F3789E4B3070@splintered.net>

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On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 08:16:50PM -0500, Mark Fullmer wrote:
>=20
> On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>=20
> >
> >Mark, could you, please, retest the patch below in your setup ?
> >I want to put a change or some edition of it into the 7.0 release, and
> >we need to move fast to do this.
>=20
> It's building now.  The testing will run overnight.
>=20
> Your patch to ffs_sync() and vfs_msync() stopped the periodic packet =20
> loss,
> but other file system activity such as (cd /; tar -cf - .) > /dev/=20
> null will
> cause dropped packets.  Same behavior, packets never make it up to the
> IP layer.

What fs do you use ? If FFS, are softupdates turned on ? Please, show the
total time spent in the softdepflush process.

Also, try to add the FULL_PREEMPTION kernel config option and report
whether it helps.

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