Re: "test-lock" stuck on FreeBSD

[Ed Maste]

On 3 December 2014 at 22:53, Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Actually, I haven't tried it on a bare metal, but on Assaf's freebsd10
> build-ready VM image:
>
>   http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/downloads/

Oh, nice - I hadn't encountered that project before. It looks like a
great resource.

I downloaded the image from there and ran it in bhyve (FreeBSD's hypervisor):

% xz -dk freebsd10.build-ready.qcow2.xz
% qemu-img convert -O raw freebsd10.build-ready.qcow2 freebsd10.build-ready.raw
% sh vmrun.sh -m 384 -d freebsd10.build-ready.raw pretest

and then I built and ran the test code:

$ cc -o test-once test-once-pthread.c -lpthread
$ time ./test-once > /dev/null
        5.10 real         1.51 user         7.98 sys
$ time ./test-once > /dev/null
        4.91 real         1.38 user         7.74 sys
$ time ./test-once > /dev/null
        4.93 real         1.51 user         7.67 sys
$ time ./test-once > /dev/null
        4.90 real         1.42 user         7.74 sys
...

I've run it in a loop over 100 times and it is consistently 5 to 6
seconds real time, 8 to 10 seconds sys.

Perhaps there's some poor interaction with KVM involved? You mentioned
you have more reports of this issue - do you know the FreeBSD version
and whether it's bare metal or in a VM?

-Ed