illumos

2020-07-06

09:16 PM illumos gate Bug #12923: SMT exclusion should not balk at GZ

Mike Zeller confirmed that a mix of bhyve instances (both in the GZ and in NGZs) ran fine on a DEBUG kernel featuring... Patrick Mooney

08:54 PM illumos gate Bug #12909: epoll should better detect fd reassignment

I've re-run the epoll test suite to check for unexprected regressions and found none. The behavior in question was f... Patrick Mooney

2020-07-02

11:04 PM illumos gate Bug #12908: epoll should exclude normal files/directories

This has been in SmartOS (and OmniOSce) since 2017 Patrick Mooney

10:25 PM illumos gate Bug #12908: epoll should exclude normal files/directories

Without the fix, the epoll test suite notes problems for the file and dir tests:... Patrick Mooney

10:29 PM illumos gate Bug #12907: epoll_ctl can avoid EINTR entirely

I added an illumos-specific test to the epoll suite to verify the @/dev/poll@ write limit imposed as part of this pat... Patrick Mooney

2020-07-01

09:13 PM illumos gate Bug #12923: SMT exclusion should not balk at GZ

With the proposed patch, I was able to start a bhyve instance in the global zone on a DEBUG platform without an immed... Patrick Mooney

07:09 PM illumos gate Bug #12923 (New): SMT exclusion should not balk at GZ

The SMT exclusion, used to mitigate some micro-architectural leakage between threads on a single core, currently @ASS... Patrick Mooney

07:27 PM illumos gate Bug #12922: bhyve vmm ops could have stronger guardrail

This is just a minor clean-up, and considering it's already a well-protected error case, should not be at all visible... Patrick Mooney

07:18 PM illumos gate Bug #12921: bhyve IPI statistics should not be a matrix

With the patch, the summarized stats are available:... Patrick Mooney

07:11 PM illumos gate Bug #12921: bhyve IPI statistics should not be a matrix

Prior to the change, querying statistics with @bhyvectl@ would show VM_MAXCPU count of IPI statistics per-vcpu:
<pre... Patrick Mooney