ULE problems on HTT SMP
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Mon Jun 30 06:58:17 PDT 2003
Jeff Roberson writes:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> >
> > On 27-Jun-2003 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > >
> > > Jeff Roberson writes:
> > > >
> > > > Can you call kseq_print(0) and kseq_print(1) from ddb?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I found a different problem which is nearly as interesting.
> > > Note that ps thinks sysctl is on cpu 255...
> >
> > #define NOCPU 0xff /* For when we aren't on a CPU. (SMP) */
> >
> > So that isn't but so interesting. :)
>
> The problem is that the logical cpu halting code does not put the halted
> CPU in the stopped cpus set. ULE has no way of knowing that it can not
> migrate a thread to this cpu. I'd prefer it if you could make this change
> John, but I can certainly do it if you're busy.
>
Does this mean that if, as a temporary measure, I disable
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt, ULE should work for me?
Thanks,
Drew
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