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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:31:32 +0100
From:      Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New SCHED_SMP diff.
Message-ID:  <200707022031.32359.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070702120147.F552@10.0.0.1>
References:  <20070701224452.I552@10.0.0.1> <200707021956.01128.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <20070702120147.F552@10.0.0.1>

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On Monday 02 July 2007 20:02:41 Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> Hi, can you try sysctl kern.sched.steal_busy=1?  Please tell me if that 
> improves things.  This will resolve short-term load imbalances by stealing 
> threads from other processors.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 

If I enable "kern.sched.steal_busy" the system panics within a couple
of seconds with a "spin lock held to long". 

Mind you that the kernels I have use has all debugging turned off e.g. 
no WITHNESS etc. so it could be that - I quite a while if I am to rerun
all tests with WITHNESS etc enabled - Do you want me to or do you have 
a suggestion as to why it panics?




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