-current host, 10.1 client loops

[Neel Natu]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CAFgRE9HQyq9tsM8PNzCAzQ2AwKenstaELcn0VsYHG4wzK4fXsA at mail.gmail.com>
> , Neel Natu writes:
>
>>Also, if it is possible to reproduce with a single vcpu then it will
>>help when analyzing the output of ktrdump.
>
> Well, on the gutfeeling that it might help I gave a '-c 1' and that
> seems to prevent the problem from happening so I could get my builds
> done.
>
> So some kind of synchronization issue maybe ?
>

Yes, that might be possible.

A couple of suggestions to narrow it down further:
- try to reproduce with 2 or 4 vcpus (3 cpus is probably not a well
tested configuration)
- try to reproduce with the ahci-hd device emulation instead of virtio-blk.

If this problem is reproducible then I am happy to work with you to
get to the bottom of this.

best
Neel

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