Re: SMP VFS Last call

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:45:42 -0800
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:55:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:36:40PM +0000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:46:32AM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> > > The SMP FFS/VFS patch has undergone several iterations and lots of serious
> > > testing over the past few weeks.  Many people, especially Peter Holm, have
> > > sent me good bug reports.  It's currently running on the port build
> > > cluster and I have done extended load testing in small memory
> > > configurations.  What this means is, after I get back from vacation, it's
> > > going to go into the tree.  If you don't test it now, you will be in a few
> > > weeks. :-)
> > > 
> > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/smpffs.diff
> >  
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > Can you please commit this ASAP?  It seems to be working very well.
> 
> I've reported two repeatable panics in the most recent version.
> There's clearly some more work that needs to be done first.

Jeff,

Mentioned there was one outstanding bug that was reported to him.  BUT
that he could commit his patchset but still always depend on GIANT.  That
way we would get fixes to the bugs he found, and Jeff could still work on
the remaining ?locking? issue.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Tue Jan 11 2005 - 21:45:52 UTC

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