Major SMP problems with lstat/namei

[Jeff Wheelhouse]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:17 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> It sounds like you missed some of the dirhash changes somehow, as  
> dirhash no
> longer has any lockmgr stuff in it (and only ever did in HEAD).  I've
> generated a patch though using svn.  You can grab it from
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ufs_lookup7.patch  Note that you  
> will
> have to set vfs.lookup_shared=1 to enable shared locks (either  
> loader tunable
> or sysctl).

We lost our test server due to production needs, but should have it  
back tomorrow.  In the mean time, I've downloaded the patch; it  
applied cleanly and I'm building the resulting kernel now.  I'll  
report back once we get the chance to test it.

Thanks,
Jeff