On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb < bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> > > On 07 Jan 2015, at 20:46 , Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:03:04AM +0000, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > C> Author: rodrigc > > C> Date: Tue Jan 6 09:03:03 2015 > > C> New Revision: 276747 > > C> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276747 > > C> > > C> Log: > > C> Instead of creating a purge thread for every vnet, create > > C> a single purge thread and clean up all vnets from this thread. > > C> > > C> PR: 194515 > > C> Differential Revision: D1315 > > C> Submitted by: Nikos Vassiliadis <nv...@gmx.com> > > > > I am not sure that this is a good idea. The core idea of VNETs > > is that they are isolated from each other. If we serialize purging, > > then vnets are strongly affecting each other. > > > > AFAIU, from the PR there is some panic fixed. What is the actual bug > > and why couldn't it be fixed with having per-vnet thread? > > You don’t 30000 whatever pf purging threads on a system all running, > possibly competing for some resources, e.g., locks? > You can tune your system to your load! I do not agree with this change as well but just saw it! I would have agreed with this if a thread per CPU is created and some improvements in the locking strategy is performed! This is a potential issue since on busy system this thread gets very resource consuming! > > — > Bjoern A. Zeeb Charles Haddon Spurgeon: > "Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed > beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend." > > > -- Ermal _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
