status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 15 06:38:47 UTC 2013


On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations:
>
> 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS.

As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light
the MFC.

-- 
Andre

> We're rolling it into the PCBSD rolling update as well.  I'm thinking it makes sense to roll this
> into the 9.2 release to give us more scalability.
>
> -Alfred
>
>
> On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> Andre,
>>>
>>> Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2?
>>
>> I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires
>> more testing.
>>
>>> I fear (maybe unnecessarily?) that we are about to ship yet another release that can't do basic
>>> 10gigE when sufficient memory exists.
>>
>> There was some debate with myself whether such a behavior changing MFC
>> would be appropriate for a mid-stream stable release.  I guess yes, though
>> a number of people who currently set the parameters manually would have
>> to remove their tuning settings.
>>
>>> If you don't have time, then let me know and I'll see what I can do.
>>
>> Can you help me with with testing?
>>
>
>



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