FreeBSD SMP Project
Project GoalThe FreeBSD SMP project, often referred to as SMPng (SMP next generation), is focused on implementing fine-grained SMP support for the FreeBSD kernel. It debuted in 5.0-RELEASE in January of 2003. Due to FreeBSD's history, this is much like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, and as such, the intermediate results aren't pretty in many ways. We are specifically not attempting to rewrite the kernel from scratch, nor are we on a crusade to fix all the architectural nits currently present in the kernel. This is a pragmatic project rather than a theoretical one.
Project Plan
This web page contains information related to the effort to improve SMP support in FreeBSD. In general, this project uses what it can from the BSD/OS 5.0 development kernel, and re-implements what cannot be directly used due to divergence in the code bases.
As with any free software project, a detailed schedule is not possible. We expect to have significant performance and stability issues that need to be worked through over the first several months of the project, though every effort will be made to keep -current running as well as possible.
The task list below is not intended to be complete, but does represent a set of relevant and/or important components of the overall work. The "Responsible" field identifies a developer who has expressed willingness to be responsible for completing the identified task; this doesn't preclude others working on it, but suggests that coordination with the responsible party might be appropriate so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of work, and to maximize forward progress. If beginning work on a new area of substantial size, or one that appears unclaimed, it may be worth dropping an e-mail to the FreeBSD SMP mailing list to see if any progress has been made.
The definition of the date field varies depending on the status of a task. For completed tasks, it refers to the date completed or reported completed. For in-progress tasks, it refers to the date of the last update of the entry. For stalled tasks, it refers to the date that the task was declared stalled. For new tasks, it refers to the date the task was added to the list.
Locking down of individual device drivers is tracked at the busdma and SMPng driver conversion webpage.
Tasks are sorted first by status, then by date.
Resources and Links
Subsystems and Staffing
This is an incomplete list of high-level kernel subsystems and current, active staff working on SMP architecture and stability.
Subsystem | Status | Last updated | Staffing |
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Newbus | In progress | 5 October 2003 | Warner Losh |
VM | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Alan L. Cox |
Buffer cache | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Jeff Roberson, Poul-Henning Kamp |
VFS | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Jeff Roberson |
Processes and thread operations | In progress | 5 May 2003 | John Baldwin |
Scheduler | In progress | 5 February 2003 | John Baldwin |
GEOM | Done | 5 February 2003 | Poul-Henning Kamp |
File descriptors | Done | 5 February 2003 | Alfred Perlstein, Seigo Tanimura |
TTY subsystem | Not Started | ||
Pipe IPC | Done | 4 October 2003 | Alfred Perlstein |
Socket structures and system calls | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Seigo Tanimura, Jeffrey Hsu, Sam Leffler |
IPv4, IPv6 | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Jeffrey Hsu, Jennifer Yang, Sam Leffler, Robert Watson |
Network stack infrastructure | In progress | 4 October 2003 | Jeffrey Hsu, Sam Leffler |
Tasks
Following is an incomplete list of general tasks.
Task | Responsible | Last updated | Status |
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Convert the giant lock from spinning to blocking, add the scheduler lock, add per-CPU idle processes. | Matt Dillon | 25 June 2000 | Done |
Port the BSD/OS locking primitives (i386). | Jake Burkholder | 3 July 2000 | Done |
Implement heavy-weight interrupt threads (i386). | Greg Lehey | 3 August 2000 | Done |
Rewrite the low level interrupt code (i386 UP). | Greg Lehey | 3 August 2000 | Done |
Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld) (i386 UP). | -smp developers | 12 August 2000 | Done |
Port the BSD/OS locking primitives (alpha). | Doug Rabson | 24 August 2000 | Done |
Stub out (disable) spl()s. | Greg Lehey | 30 August 2000 | Done |
Port the BSD/OS ktr code. | Greg Lehey, John Baldwin | 30 August 2000 | Done |
Rewrite the low level interrupt code (i386 SMP). | John Baldwin | 1 September 2000 | Done |
Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld) (i386 SMP). | -smp developers | 6 September 2000 | Done |
Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld) (alpha). | -smp developers | 6 September 2000 | Done |
Make malloc and friends thread-safe. | Jason Evans | 10 September 2000 | Done |
Implement msleep(), make tsleep() an msleep() wrapper. | Jake Burkholder | 11 September 2000 | Done |
Make fxp driver thread-safe. | Chuck Paterson | 17 September 2000 | Done |
Make mbuf's thread-safe. | Bosko Milekic | 29 September 2000 | Done |
Lock manager re-work. | Jason Evans | 3 October 2000 | Done |
Implement heavy-weight interrupt threads (alpha). | John Baldwin, Doug Rabson | 5 October 2000 | Done |
Rewrite the low level interrupt code (alpha). | Doug Rabson, John Baldwin | 5 October 2000 | Done |
Process accounting. | Tor Egge, John Baldwin | 5 October 2000 | Done |
Make ethernet drivers thread-safe. | Bill Paul | 15 October 2000 | Done |
Make the mutex headers mostly machine-independent. | John Baldwin | 20 October 2000 | Done |
Rename SMP_DEBUG to MUTEX_DEBUG. | John Baldwin | 20 October 2000 | Done |
Give each soft interrupt its own thread. | Chuck Paterson | 25 October 2000 | Done |
Make sf_bufs (sendfile(2)) thread-safe. | Bosko Milekic | 5 November 2000 | Done |
Make the witness code work correctly. | John Baldwin | 18 November 2000 | Done |
Split the ktr-specific code out of db_interface.c. | John Baldwin | 15 December 2000 | Done |
Convert the sio driver to using a spin mutex. | John Baldwin | 18 December 2000 | Done |
Implement condition variables. | Jake Burkholder, Jason Evans | 15 January 2001 | Done |
Add a flag to mtx_init() (MTX_RECURSE) that denotes whether a mutex is allowed to recurse. | Bosko Milekic | 19 January 2001 | Done |
Make the zone allocator thread-safe. | Dag-Erling Smorgrav | 21 January 2001 | Done |
Convert simplelocks to mutexes. | Jason Evans | 24 January 2001 | Done |
Make kernel preemptive with respect to interrupts. | Jake Burkholder | 31 January 2001 | Done |
Cleanup of mutex API. | Bosko Milekic | 8 February 2001 | Done |
Remove COM_LOCK. | Mark Murray | 11 February 2001 | Done |
Merge various scheduling classes into one run queue. Modify scheduler to support preemptable kernel. | Jake Burkholder | 11 February 2001 | Done |
Make priority propagation work correctly. | Jake Burkholder | 11 February 2001 | Done |
Make most of the interrupt thread code MI and shared between hardware and software interrupts. | John Baldwin | 18 February 2001 | Done |
Add protection to struct jail and jail-related functionality. | Robert Watson | 20 February 2001 | Done |
Implement sx (shared/exclusive) locks. | Jason Evans | 5 March 2001 | Done |
Generalize/improve witness to handle more complex locking primitives (mtx, sx). | John Baldwin | 28 March 2001 | Done |
Convert the allproc and proctree locks from lockmgr locks to sx locks. | John Baldwin | 28 March 2001 | Done |
Make mbuf system use condition variables instead of msleep()/wakeup(). | Bosko Milekic | 2 April 2001 | Done |
Remove <sys/mutex.h> includes from other kernel headers such as <vm/vm_zone.h>, <sys/resourcevar.h>, <sys/ucred.h>, and <sys/mbuf.h>. | Mark Murray | 15 May 2001 | Done |
Cleanup the various mp_machdep.c's, unify various SMP API's such as IPI delivery, etc. | John Baldwin | 15 May 2001 | Done |
Make most of the forward_* and forwarded_* functions MI. | John Baldwin | 15 May 2001 | Done |
Complete the MD support for SMP on the Alpha platform. | Andrew Gallatin, Doug Rabson, John Baldwin | 15 May 2001 | Done |
Convert select() to use condition variables. | Seigo Tanimura | 15 May 2001 | Done |
Add a "giant" lock around the VM subsystem. | Alfred Perlstein | 13 June 2001 | Done |
Introduce a modified slab allocator for the mbuf subsystem. | Bosko Milekic | 21 June 2001 | Done |
Add a witness_assert() function to handle lock assertions. | John Baldwin | 27 June 2001 | Done |
Extend sx locks to support try lock operations. | John Baldwin | 27 June 2001 | Done |
Document KTR. | John Baldwin | 28 June 2001 | Done |
Make fork_return, fork_exit, ast, and userret MI. | John Baldwin | 29 June 2001 | Done |
Make sched_lock's savecrit a per-process property saved and restored in mi_switch and initialized in fork_exit. | John Baldwin | 30 June 2001 | Done |
Make ast() loop. | John Baldwin | 10 August 2001 | Done |
Add upgrade/downgrade sx lock operations. | Alexander Kabaev, Jason Evans | 13 August 2001 | Done |
Implement semaphores. | Jason Evans | 14 August 2001 | Done |
Add support for upgrade/downgrades in witness. | John Baldwin | 23 August 2001 | Done |
Make most of cpu_wait() and cpu_exit() MI. | Peter Wemm | 9 September 2001 | Done |
Split NFS into client and server. | Peter Wemm | 18 Oct 2001 | Done |
Lock taskqueues. | Andrew Reiter, John Baldwin | 25 October 2001 | Done |
Add a per-thread ucred reference. | John Baldwin | 25 October 2001 | Done |
Make most of the per-CPU stuff MI. | John Baldwin | 11 December 2001 | Done |
Make critical section saved state per-thread instead of per-lock so that interlocking spin locks work properly. | John Baldwin | 17 December 2001 | Done |
Replace the APIC-specific imen_mtx with a MI-named icu_lock to protect interrupt controllers and associated data within the kernel for both i386 and alpha. | John Baldwin | 20 December 2001 | Done |
Use the per-thread critical section nesting level in the mutex and interrupt thread code to automatically determine when to not preempt. This makes the MTX_NOSWITCH, SWI_SWITCH, and SWI_NOSWITCH flags obsolete as the kernel will be able to figure out the proper behavior on its own. | John Baldwin | 5 January 2002 | Done |
Lock struct filedesc and struct file. | Seigo Tanimura, Alfred Perlstein | 12 January 2002 | Done |
Lock struct pgrp, struct session, and struct sigio. | Seigo Tanimura | 23 February 2002 | Done |
Lock pipe implementation, but not sigio/fown, VM interactions | Alfred Perlstein | 27 February 2002 | Done |
Move to explicit reference counting for soft vnode references. | Poul-Henning Kamp | 8 March 2002 | Done |
Initialize mutex pools early enough that sx locks can be used for VM. | Brian Feldman | 14 March 2002 | Done |
Place a global lock (sellock) around selinfo structures to fix a variety of lock order reversals, and make select() MP-safe. | Alfred Perlstein, Chad David | 14 March 2002 | Done |
Push down Giant on read, write, pread, pwrite system calls, acquiring Giant in the per-subsystem fileop layer for sockets, VFS, etc. | Alfred Perlstein | 15 March 2002 | Done |
Lock down kernel module structures. | Andrew Reiter | 18 March 2002 | Done |
Lock down kernel linker globals. | Andrew Reiter | 18 March 2002 | Done |
Rewrite kernel memory allocator to be a slab allocator that uses per-cpu caches. | Jeff Roberson | 21 March 2002 | Done |
Replace incorrect use of MD critical section API to disable interrupts with a specific interrupt disable API. | Warner Losh, Doug Rabson, Benno Rice, John Baldwin | 21 March 2002 | Done |
Lock down access to the shared p_args "process arguments" structure through appropriate protection of that structure and references to it. | Jonathan Mini | 31 March 2002 | Done |
Move from flags/tsleep lock to sx locks to protect sysctl tree from updates during sysctl operations. | Jonathan Mini | 1 April 2002 | Done |
Create/port userland tool to manage KTR event dumps. | Jake Burkholder | 1 April 2002 | Done |
Create MTX_SYSINIT and SX_SYSINIT macros that allow for initializing locks that are subsystem independent. | Andrew Reiter | 2 April 2002 | Done |
Lock down the global securelevel variable. | Andrew Reiter | 2 April 2002 | Done |
Make grow_stack() MI. Possibly even a macro or inline. | Alan L. Cox | 6 April 2002 | Done |
Lock use of p_fd, which otherwise can result in corrupted p_fd panics during heavy operation. Start with a global, and move to per-proc locking. | Alfred Perlstein, Seigo Tanimura | 8 April 2002 | Done |
Lock struct pargs. | Jonathan Mini | 9 April 2002 | Done |
Make {o,}sigreturn() MPSAFE. | Alan L. Cox | 11 April 2002 | Done |
Rewrite kernel memory allocator so that Giant is not required for malloc() or free(). | Jeff Roberson | 2 May 2002 | Done |
Replace complex shared/exclusive locking scheme in the VM system with a purely exclusive lockmgr locking scheme, simplifying locking and removing potential livelock/deadlock scenarios. | Brian Feldman, Alan L. Cox | 3 May 2002 | Done |
Push down Giant into readv/writev system calls in style of read/write/pread/pwrite once malloc no longer requires Giant in the handling of iovec structures for uio. | Alan L. Cox | 9 May 2002 | Done |
Push down Giant in mprotect(), minherit(), and madvise() so that it is no longer acquired and released directly. | Alan L. Cox | 18 May 2002 | Done |
Update suser() and p_can*() APIs to accept threads instead of processes. | John Baldwin | 18 May 2002 | Done |
Broadly transition to td_ucred from p_ucred once KSE dependencies are in place. | John Baldwin | 18 May 2002 | Done |
Add a witness_sleep() check to uma_zalloc() to catch code calling malloc() or uma_zalloc() while holding non-sleepable locks. | John Baldwin | 20 May 2002 | Done |
Optimize UP support by changing spin locks to only perform critical section enter and exits. | John Baldwin | 21 May 2002 | Done |
Make sleep mutexes spin if the current lock holder is executing on another CPU. | John Baldwin | 21 May 2002 | Done |
Add support for the IA32 pause instruction to spin loops in locks. | John Baldwin | 21 May 2002 | Done |
Make KTRACE write into tracefiles asynchronously. | John Baldwin | 7 June 2002 | Done |
Remove Giant from jail(2). | Andrew Reiter | 25 June 2002 | Done |
Remove Giant from modnext(2), modfnext(2), modstat(2),and modfind(2). | Andrew Reiter | 25 June 2002 | Done |
Fix synchronization of TLB flushes and invlpg() on x86 SMP. | Peter Wemm | 12 July 2002 | Done |
Make cpu_coredump MI. | Peter Wemm | 7 September 2002 | Done |
Add a subsystem lock to the accounting code. | Andrew Reiter | 11 September 2002 | Done |
Fix SIGXPU and other #if 0'd things in mi_switch(). | John Baldwin | 30 September 2002 | Done |
Lock down TrustedBSD MAC implementation. | Robert Watson | 11 November 2002 | Done |
Lock eventhandlers. | Mike Smith, Jonathan Mini, John Baldwin | 11 March 2003 | Done |
Fix PHOLD() so that it blocks to guarantee PS_INMEM. | John Baldwin | 22 April 2003 | Done |
Fix various procfs_machdep.c to not use sched_lock. | John Baldwin | 22 April 2003 | Done |
Lock all references to process credentials and remove Giant from process credential-related system calls. | John Baldwin | 1 May 2003 | Done |
Merge the procsig and sigacts structures, move the new sigacts structure out of the U-area and add appropriate locking. | John Baldwin | 13 May 2003 | Done |
Remove Giant from the kill() and killpg() system calls. | John Baldwin | 13 May 2003 | Done |
Enhance the mutex pool implementation to allow creation and use of multiple, dynamically allocated pools with adjustable pool sizes and mutex options. | Don Lewis | 16 July 2003 | Done |
Create mutex profiling tool for the kernel so as to measure contention and behavior of kernel mutexes. | Eivind Eklund, Dag-Erling Smorgrav | 31 March 2002 | Done |
Lock pipe implementation: VM optimizations. | 4 October 2003 | Done | |
Reimplement i386 interrupt and SMP code so that SMP kernels work on UP boxes and SMP can be enabled in GENERIC. | John Baldwin | 3 November 2003 | Done |
Implement generic turnstiles to use when blocking on non-sleepable locks. | John Baldwin | 11 November 2003 | Done |
Split witness_lock() into witness_checkorder() and witness_lock(). witness_checkorder() would be called before acquiring a lock to increase the changes of detecting and warning about a reversal prior to deadlocking. witness_lock() would simply update witness' internal state to note that a lock has been acquired. | John Baldwin | 24 January 2004 | Done |
Lock per-process resource limits. | Mike Makonnen, John Baldwin | 4 February 2004 | Done |
Implement a sleep queue abstraction to be used by both msleep() and condition variables. This new abstraction should use a hash table of sleep queues with a spin lock on each sleep queue chain similar to turnstile chain locks to make sched_lock finger grained. | John Baldwin | 27 February 2004 | Done |
Lock struct proc. | John Baldwin | 20 February 2001 | In progress |
Make the kernel fully preemptive. | John Baldwin | 7 September 2001 | In progress |
Lock down the tty subsystem. | Dick Garner, Jeremy Scofield, Thomas Moestl | 2 April 2002 | In progress |
Fix clock locking to be the same on all platforms. | John Baldwin | 16 November 2001 | In progress |
Lock pipe implementation: sigio/fown-related evil | Alfred Perlstein | 27 February 2002 | In progress |
Make use of process locking and process reference counting to protect debugging interfaces (and procfs). | John Baldwin | 27 February 2002 | In progress |
Make use of process locking to protect process monitoring sysctls, including those employed by 'ps' and related tools. | John Baldwin | 27 February 2002 | In progress |
Lock down newbus infrastructure to support driver fine-graining. | Warner Losh | 28 February 2002 | In progress |
Remove the MP safe syscall flag from the syscall table and add explicit mtx_lock/unlock's of Giant to all syscalls. | Matt Dillon, Maxime Henrion | 28 February 2002 | In progress |
SMPng architecture document. | John Baldwin, Robert Watson | 28 February 2002 | In progress |
Move to shared lock for VOP_GETATTR() to reduce blocking during frequent lightweight VFS operations. Modify namei() to provide a LOOKUP_SHARED flag to indicate when the lock required may be shared instead of exclusive. | Jeff Roberson | 11 March 2002 | In progress |
Lock sysctl hierarchy and access methods. | Jonathan Mini | 9 April 2002 | In progress |
Document existing vm_map locking and verify it's correctness. | Alan L. Cox | 18 May 2002 | In progress |
Document existing vm_object locking and verify it's correctness. | Alan L. Cox | 4 May 2002 | In progress |
Lock down linker_file_t structures in the kernel linker. | Andrew Reiter | 19 June 2002 | In progress |
Lock down the SysV IPC code. | Alfred Perlstein | 13 August 2002 | In progress |
Review locking strategy and correctness of VFS operations and fix up various failure modes associated with enabling VFS locking assertions. | Jeff Roberson | 10 December 2002 | In progress |
Document in-vnode locking strategy, clean it up, remove interlock, switch to sx locks. | Jeff Roberson | 10 December 2002 | In progress |
Implement lazy interrupt thread switching (context stealing) on i386. | Bosko Milekic, Alexander Kabaev | 10 December 2002 | In progress |
Implement lazy interrupt thread switching (context stealing) on sparc64. | Jake Burkholder | 10 December 2002 | In progress |
Switch from using lockmgr in VM to using a mutex or exclusive sxlock. Push down Giant on all VM except for vm_object/VFS and vm_page/pmap components. | Alan L. Cox | 10 December 2002 | In progress |
Modify device driver API to permit drivers to more easily split "in interrupt context" and "in interrupt thread" code so as to acknowledge interrupts faster. This will permit lower latency in interrupt handling. | Peter Wemm | 4 October 2003 | In progress |
Create mechanism in cdevsw structure to protect thread-unsafe drivers. | John Baldwin | 15 May 2001 | Stalled |
Make printf() safe to call in almost any situation to avoid deadlocks. | Chuck Paterson | 15 May 2001 | Stalled |
Add locking to NFS. | 15 May 2001 | Not Started | |
Remove priority argument from tsleep(), msleep(), cv_*wait*(). | 12 January 2001 | Not Started | |
Reimplement kqueue using condition variables. | Jonathan Lemon | 15 March 2001 | Not Started |
Conditionalize atomic ops in the SMP code that are used for debugging statistics. | Peter Wemm | 15 March 2001 | Not Started |
Add a new witness check for exiting processes to verify that an exiting process holds no locks. | John Baldwin | 13 June 2001 | Not Started |
Specify priorities for condition variables, semaphores, and sx locks. | 7 September 2001 | Not Started | |
Axe schedcpu() in favor of event driven priority updates as much as possible. | 7 September 2001 | Not Started | |
Fix *hold (e.g. crhold) to return reference to object. | 7 September 2001 | Not Started | |
Add witness checking for lockmgr locks. | 7 September 2001 | Not Started | |
Add ICU spin locks on ia64. | 4 January 2002 | Not Started | |
Fast-path push-down of Giant for VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Lock contention measurement tool to measure heat of various locks, including Giant, and permit more directed performance and locking strategy optimization. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Push the grabbing of Giant into Linux i386 ABI system calls. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Push the grabbing of Giant into Linux AXP ABI system calls. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Push the grabbing of Giant into SVR4 i386 ABI system calls. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Push the grabbing of Giant into OSF/1 AXP ABI system calls. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Push the grabbing of Giant into IBCS i386 ABI system calls. | 25 February 2002 | Not Started | |
Expand mutex profiling tool to also profile sx locks. | Eivind Eklund, Dag-Erling Smorgrav | 1 April 2002 | Not Started |
Implement atomic_fetchadd() for int's and long's with acq and rel versions. | 23 May 2002 | Not Started | |
Implement a simple reference count API using atomic operations and use this to replace locks that just protect a reference count. | 23 May 2002 | Not Started | |
Add a witness_sleep() check to copyin/out() and s/fuword(). | John Baldwin | 7 June 2002 | Not Started |
This table lists the todo subtasks for multithreading the network stack.
Task | Responsible | Last updated | Status |
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Protect network interface queues. | Jonathan Lemon | 24 November 2000 | Done |
Lock up IP. | Jennifer Yang, Jeffrey Hsu | 10 June 2002 | Done |
Lock up TCP. | Jennifer Yang, Jeffrey Hsu | 10 June 2002 | Done |
Lock up UDP. | Jennifer Yang, Jeffrey Hsu | 10 June 2002 | Done |
Lock ifaddr reference counts. | Jeffrey Hsu | 18 December 2002 | Done |
Lock up ifnet list. | Jeffrey Hsu | 21 December 2002 | Done |
Lock radix trees. | Jeffrey Hsu | 23 December 2002 | Done |
Lock up ARP. | Jeffrey Hsu | 16 January 2003 | Done |
Lock up raw IP. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock divert sockets. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock ipfw2. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock DUMMYNET. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock ethernet bridge. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock IP fragment queues. | Robert Watson | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock routing entries. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Lock FAST_IPSEC. | Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | Done |
Permit parallel entry into isr processing. | Robert Watson, Sam Leffler | 11 October 2003 | Done |
Lock if_disc "discard interface". | Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | Done |
Lock if_faith "IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay interface. " | Sam Leffler, Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | Done |
Lock if_gif "generic tunnel interface". | Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | Done |
Review ECN tunnel support (ip_ecn.c). | Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | Done |
Lock up syncache. | Jeffrey Hsu, Sam Leffler | 10 November 2003 | In progress |
Lock UNIX® domain protocols. | Jeffrey Hsu, Sam Leffler | 4 October 2003 | In progress |
Lock IPv6. | Sam Leffler, Robert Watson, Hajimu UMEMOTO | 11 October 2003 | In progress |
Lock socket layer. | Seigo Tanimura, Sam Leffler | 10 October 2003 | In progress |
Permit IP forwarding path to run Giant-free. | Sam Leffler | 10 October 2003 | In progress |
Lock interface cloning meta-data. | Brooks Davis | 9 March 2004 | In progress |
Lock in_gif "generic tunnel interface" per-softc variables. | Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | In progress |
Lock struct ifnet. | 19 January 2001 | Not Started | |
Lock IPv4 and IPv6 interface address lists. | 9 March 2004 | Not Started | |
Reduce contention upon locking a socket buffer by replacing tsleep() and wakeup() with a condvar. | Seigo Tanimura | 21 April 2002 | Not Started |
Lock consumers of BSD compress (bsd_comp.c) code to protect compression state. | 9 March 2004 | Not Started | |
IP encapsulation subroutines (ip_encap.c). | Robert Watson | 9 March 2004 | Not Started |
Lock if_ef "ethernet frame" driver. | 9 March 2004 | Not Started | |
Lock TCP timed code. | 9 March 2004 | Not Started |
Known Issues
Issue | Last updated | Status |
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Idle processor time is not charged to the idle processes. | 20 September 2000 | Resolved |
microuptime creeps backwards. | 4 October 2000 | Resolved |
microuptime() went backwards | 4 October 2000 | Resolved |
Process accounting is not accurate (the more CPUs, the closer to correct it is). | 5 October 2000 | Resolved |
M_DEVBUF is probably the wrong memory pool for interrupt stuff and we should think about creating a new malloc pool for that stuff. | 9 February 2001 | Resolved |
PC card eject panics due to a race condition in the interrupt thread code. | 15 March 2001 | Resolved |
SMP x86 boxes are seeing NCPU * 100 clk interrupts and NCPU * 128 rtc interrupts. | 15 May 2001 | Resolved |
Witness will infinitely recurse when it acquires Giant after sleeping with a sleepable lock. | 27 June 2001 | Resolved |
Serial gdb does not work if boot_ddb and boot_gdb options are specified. | 14 July 2002 | Resolved |
Serial gdb does not work at 115200 baud. | 14 July 2002 | Resolved |
Serial gdb never regains control once 'cont' has been entered. | 14 July 2002 | Resolved |
Profiling is broken. | 20 February 2001 | Unresolved |
jail_sysvipc_allowed is checked in an unsafe manner in the SYSV IPC syscalls. | 5 March 2002 | Unresolved |
News
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