On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Jeff Roberson <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: jeff > Date: Wed Oct 14 02:10:07 2015 > New Revision: 289279 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289279 > > Log: > Parallelize the buffer cache and rewrite getnewbuf(). This results in a > 8x performance improvement in a micro benchmark on a 4 socket machine. > > - Get buffer headers from a per-cpu uma cache that sits in from of the > free queue. > - Use a per-cpu quantum cache in vmem to eliminate contention for kva. > - Use multiple clean queues according to buffer cache size to eliminate > clean queue lock contention. > - Introduce a bufspace daemon that attempts to prevent getnewbuf() callers > from blocking or doing direct recycling. > - Close some bufspace allocation races that could lead to endless > recycling. > - Further the transition to a more modern style of small functions grouped > by prefix in order to improve growing complexity.
I have an i386 system that locks up easily after this commit. Booting into single user and running make installkernel triggers it consistently. I haven't been able to reproduce it on amd64. Examining threads with DDB shows that they are all at sched_switch (a few at fork_trampoline). The only lock being held is Giant (by the interrupt handler for ctrl+alt+esc I think). So it doesn't look like a dead lock. It's more a sleeping beauty situation. All threads in the castle are sleeping and there's no prince to wake them up. (kgdb) info thread Id Target Id Frame These are from make installkernel: 72 Thread 100071 (PID=107: install) sched_switch (td=0xc667d000, newtd=0xc6407000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 71 Thread 100070 (PID=81: make) sched_switch (td=0xc667d340, newtd=0xc667d000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 70 Thread 100067 (PID=30: make) sched_switch (td=0xc667e000, newtd=0xc667d340, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 69 Thread 100066 (PID=25: make) sched_switch (td=0xc667e340, newtd=0xc667e000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 Single user shell: 68 Thread 100065 (PID=17: sh) sched_switch (td=0xc6406000, newtd=0xc667e340, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 Kernel threads: 67 Thread 100063 (PID=16: vnlru) sched_switch (td=0xc6406680, newtd=0xc6407340, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 66 Thread 100062 (PID=9: syncer) sched_switch (td=0xc64069c0, newtd=0xc667d000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 65 Thread 100061 (PID=8: bufspacedaemon) sched_switch (td=0xc6407000, newtd=0xc62dc000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 64 Thread 100060 (PID=7: bufdaemon) sched_switch (td=0xc6407340, newtd=0xc6408000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 63 Thread 100068 (PID=7: bufdaemon//var worker) sched_switch ( td=0xc667d9c0, newtd=0xc6407000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 62 Thread 100069 (PID=7: bufdaemon//usr worker) sched_switch ( td=0xc667d680, newtd=0xc667d000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 61 Thread 100059 (PID=6: pagezero) sched_switch (td=0xc6407680, newtd=0xc55ba680, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 60 Thread 100058 (PID=5: vmdaemon) sched_switch (td=0xc64079c0, newtd=0xc6407340, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 59 Thread 100057 (PID=4: pagedaemon) sched_switch (td=0xc6408000, newtd=0xc6407000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 58 Thread 100064 (PID=4: pagedaemon/uma) sched_switch (td=0xc6406340, newtd=0xc55b9340, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 57 Thread 100050 (PID=15: acpi_cooling0) sched_switch (td=0xc62dc340, newtd=0xc6407000, flags=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1969 .... Anything else you need to debug this? _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"