Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
Roman Divacky wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: >> >>> >>> In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking >>> granularity and improving opportunities for ke

DNS DDoS

2007-11-25 Thread Doug Barton
Joel V. wrote: > As a lot of people recommended using tcpdump, here it is. The only thing > that stands out, are hundreds and thousands of lines like this: > > 13:45:49.991592 IP 82.165.252.222.36887 > ns1.galandrex.ee.43077: UDP, > length 9216 ... > That IP resolves to u15194704.onlinehome-server

Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card (was: Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on)

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:48:50PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Using the NatSemi card an example, there is a 32bit WOL configuration > register at offset 0x40 in the chip register space and bit number 9 > (the 8th bit from the right) As usual I got the numbers wrong :) Sorry if this is causin

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Kip Macy wrote: I just want to add my 2 cents, that my recent experience with FreeBSD MP has been extremely positive. I tend to use highly CPU bound MP programs, typically lots and lots of floating point operations. It used to be that Linux beat FreeBSD hands down - now

How to add wake on lan support for your card (was: Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on)

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:53:59AM -0800, David Leslie wrote: > Linux does support WOL for (at least) this SiS900 NIC > (I can verify that it does work on this board), so > maybe it will be supported in FreeBSD in the future? Sure, it's possible. Adding support for a card is not that hard actuall

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Kip Macy
> >> > >> I just want to add my 2 cents, that my recent experience with FreeBSD MP > >> has been extremely positive. I tend to use highly CPU bound MP programs, > >> typically lots and lots of floating point operations. It used to be that > >> Linux beat FreeBSD hands down - now FreeBSD seems to

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking granularity and improving opportunities

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Roman Divacky
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > >In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking > >granularity and improving opportunities for kernel parallelism by bett

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking granularity and improving opportunities for kernel parallelism by better distributing workloads over CPU pools. This is important because the number of core

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Christopher Chen wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 12:05 PM, Christopher Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 3:13 AM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At this point, Giant is gradually becoming a lock around the tty, newbus, usb, and msdosfs code, and we're large

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Christopher Chen
On Nov 25, 2007 3:13 AM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, Giant is gradually becoming a lock around the tty, newbus, usb, > and msdosfs code, and we're largely at diminishing returns in terms of making > improvements in parallelism through removing Giant. In FreeBSD 7, the

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Christopher Chen
On Nov 25, 2007 12:05 PM, Christopher Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 25, 2007 3:13 AM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At this point, Giant is gradually becoming a lock around the tty, newbus, > > usb, > > and msdosfs code, and we're largely at diminishing returns in terms o

Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on

2007-11-25 Thread David Leslie
Appreciate your quick response > The sis driver supports at least two different types > of cards. Yes, among them SiS 900 series NIC. The NIC in question is embedded on the Intel D201GLY/D201GLY2 desktop board (chipset is SiS662 NB + SiS964 SB). The NatSemi DP8381[56] is the only implementation cu

Re: WOL not working with 3Com NIC

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:47:05PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:16:59PM -0500, M E wrote: > > I am able to get "will wake on: magic", when typing "ifconfig" in > > FreeNAS (built on FreeBSD); however, I am still unable to wake up the > > box. > > I know that xl does n

Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hey David, (I'm Cc'ing this reply to hackers@ with David's consent.) On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:31:24PM -0800, David Leslie wrote: > Have an Intel ITX size board (D201GLY2) with a SiS 900 > NIC, which supports WOL and has a WOL-enabled FreeBSD > driver, but does not actually wake after powering

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, binto wrote: From what I read in "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System",said: 'However, most of the heavily used parts of the kernel have been moved out from under the giant lock, including much of the virtual memory system, the networking stack