PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch
Pawel Worach
pawel.worach at telia.com
Mon Aug 23 14:00:54 PDT 2004
Doug White wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> If you have a reasonably fast i386 or amd64 multiprocessor and/or
> hyperthreading machine and are experiencing reproducible hangs during -j
> buildwords and other highly parallel operations, please try this patch:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/smp_rv_mtx.patch
>
Worked like a charm, Four way Xeon box with a -j256 buildstone using
SCHED_ULE. Thanks for tracking this down!
--
Pawel
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