Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64

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From: Hedi Berriche
Date: Friday, August 27, 2010 - 7:52 am

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:40 Petr Tesarik wrote:
| On Friday 27 of August 2010 16:31:35 Hedi Berriche wrote:
|
| > That said, I'm letting my already over 36 hours run carry on chewing CPU
| > time, and see if it will eventually trip the same problem seen with 4-byte
| > ticket locks.
| 
| Hm, this doesn't sound like a viable approach. Since the siglock gets 
| initialized to 0 when a new process is started, it may never actually wrap 
| around.
| 
| I would rather attach a SystemTap probe somewhere during process fork and add 
| a bias to the siglock. That should work fine. Let me knock up the SystemTap 
| script...

That would be nice. Ta!

Cheers,
Hedi.
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Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 6:37 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Fri Aug 27, 6:48 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 7:09 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Fri Aug 27, 7:31 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 7:40 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Fri Aug 27, 7:52 am)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 9:08 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 9:37 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 10:16 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Fri Aug 27, 11:20 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 12:40 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 1:29 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 1:41 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 2:03 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 2:11 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Aug 27, 3:13 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 4:26 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 4:55 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Fri Aug 27, 5:28 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Fri Aug 27, 10:01 pm)
RE: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Luck, Tony, (Mon Aug 30, 11:17 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Mon Aug 30, 2:41 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Mon Aug 30, 3:43 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Tue Aug 31, 3:17 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Wed Sep 1, 4:09 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Hedi Berriche, (Wed Sep 1, 5:26 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Thu Sep 2, 5:06 pm)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Sep 3, 2:04 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Sep 3, 7:35 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Fri Sep 3, 7:52 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Fri Sep 3, 8:50 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Mon Sep 6, 7:47 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Petr Tesarik, (Tue Sep 7, 6:17 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Tue Sep 7, 10:35 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Tony Luck, (Wed Sep 8, 8:55 am)
Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64, Dave Jones, (Thu Sep 9, 7:55 pm)