[RFC] kern/kern_timeout.c rewrite in progress

[Jason Wolfe]

Hans,

We've had 50 machines running 10.1-STABLE with this patch for the
better part of a week without issue.  Prior we would have seen a panic
every few days at the least, so things are looking very promising on
our front.

Jason

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> On 01/07/15 00:10, Jason Wolfe wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hans,
>>
>> We've been running into 'spin lock held too long' panics in the kernel
>> idle threads on 10-STABLE over the past 6 months, so I was interested
>> to see your work here in the callout code.  I went ahead and brought
>> this patch back to a recent 10.1-STABLE base without much issue,
>> kern_timeout.c was actually the only piece with some easily resolvable
>> rejections.
>>
>> I've had a box running stable under load with this patch for a few
>> days, and 10 more have just been added to the rotation.  Anyway just
>> figured you might be interested in the some feedback while the changes
>> are reviewed.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank your for testing this patch. Any updates?
>
> --HPS
>