livelock in lwkt_setcpu_remote()

Magliano Andre' masterblaster at tiscali.it
Thu Mar 24 10:59:01 PDT 2011


Hi Steve,

i get too on boot sporadically 'M_NOWAIT kmalloc failed, trying
M_WAITOK', but just under VirtualBox environment. Didn't mentioned it,
as i saw no link with livelock problem.


On 3/24/2011, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
>Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>
>>     Shoot, I had hoped those were fixed.  At this point I think I'm going
>>     to have to rewrite the mechanism entirely by adding some assembly to
>>     deal with the case in the thread switch code.
>
>	Is there any likelihood that this is related to my LWKT_WAIT_IPIQ
>panic http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue2004 ?
>
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