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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:54:24 +0300
From:      Stefan Andritoiu <stefan.andritoiu@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gang scheduling implementation in the ULE scheduler
Message-ID:  <CAO3d8=Y-uzRro8W%2Be44oHNjsawrFuQwptvpqpm1N7TitEJKTfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5578A0D7.1080505@freebsd.org>
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Hi Peter,
Yes, I think it is lightly loaded. I am trying to run a FreeBSD guest
with 2 VCPUs on a 4 CPU host, with no other program running.
But I am having the same problem even when I start a 1 VCPU guest.

later,
Stefan

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
>> When I start a Virtual Machine, during the guest's boot, IPIs are sent
>> and received correctly between CPUs, but after a few seconds I get:
>>      spin lock 0xffffffff8164c290 (smp rendezvous) held by
>> 0xfffff8000296c000 (tid 100009) too long
>>      panic: spin lock held too long
>
>
>  Is this on a lightly loaded machine ? I've not looked at your diff in
> detail but it's possibly a code path where a spinlock wasn't unlocked,
> leaving another CPU spinning.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>



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