Re: KTLS thread on 14.0-RC3

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:06:13 UTC
On 10/30/23 3:41 AM, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 30, 2023, at 12:09 PM, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2023, at 5:43 PM, Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am currently building a new system, which should be based on 14.0-RELEASE.
>>> Therefor I am tracking releng/14.0 since its creation and updating it currently
>>> via the usualy buildworld steps.
>>>
>>> What I have noticed recently is, that the [KTLS] is missing. I have a stable/13
>>> system which shows the [KTLS] thread and a very recent -CURRENT that also shows
>>> the [KTLS] thread.
>>>
>>> The stable/13 and releng/14.0 systems both use the GENERIC kernel, without any
>>> custom modifications.
>>>
>>> Loaded KLDs are also the same.
>>>
>>> Did I miss something, or is there something in releng/14.0 missing, which
>>> is currenlty enabled in stable/13?
>>
>> KTLS shall still work as intended, the creation of it threads is deferred.
>>
>> See a72ee355646c (ktls: Defer creation of threads and zones until first use)
>>> Run ktls_init() when the first KTLS session is created rather than
>>> unconditionally during boot.  This avoids creating unused threads and
>>> allocating unused resources on systems which do not use KTLS.
>>
>> ```
>> -SYSINIT(ktls, SI_SUB_SMP + 1, SI_ORDER_ANY, ktls_init, NULL);
>> ```
> 
> Seems 14.0 only create one KTLS thread.
> 
> IIRC 13.2 create one thread per core.

That part should not be different.  There should always be one thread per core.

-- 
John Baldwin