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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:30:54 +0100
From:      Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: Giantless VFS.
Message-ID:  <20041123013054.GA38804@peter.osted.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20041122064318.Y18094@mail.chesapeake.net>
References:  <20041120000743.G18094@mail.chesapeake.net> <41A1C3BD.4010903@fer.hr> <20041122064318.Y18094@mail.chesapeake.net>

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:46:50AM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >
> > > The short description:
> > > This patch removes Giant from the read(), write(), and fstat() syscalls,
> > > as well as page faults, and bufdone (io interrupts) when using FFS.  It
> >
> > What is the plan re: RELENG_5? Will things like this (giantless vm, fs)
> > be merged into it?
> 
> The giantless vm was already merged back to RELENG_5 and enabled on amd64,
> and i386.  I hope to merge the giantless vfs back after a month or so of
> no problems on -current.  I hope to commit it to -current this week.
> 
> I haven't received any feedback from the list though.  I hope people are
> testing it.  Perhaps the silence indicates universal success? :-)
> 

Here's a problem I ran into during stress test:

http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/jeff01.html

Let me know if you need more gdb output.

- Peter

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